[ICFP Compition] RayTracer with a Function Description Language

Rob Withers rwithers at exobox.com
Mon Aug 28 19:50:40 UTC 2000


Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Rob Withers wrote:
>
> > Good morning,
> >
> > I thought I would post a quick overview of the progress made over the
> > past day.  The swiki site is http://callisto.swiki.net.  Ned posted a
> > PPMReaderWriter for output.  Andreas has the renderer well in order as
> > you may imagine.  He is looking into the advanced functions like
> > difference and intersection for solid objects.  Bijan created a grammar
> > for GML which can parse their most complicated example!  ;-)   Future
> > directions look like an evaluator, a class heirarchy for the scene
> > objects and other elements in the environment, including operations.
> > Rendering and Writing to a file are there.  Finally, the compitition
> > requires stdin as the data feed where they send the gml statementList.
> > This may mean it would be a good idea to have a headless image to do
> > this.  Anybody else up for a little hacking to get this together?
>
> Yes I want! But where's the stuff? I downloaded everything from
> callisto.swiki.net, but there's no renderer yet, just a parser (how do I
> call it?) ...
>
> Also, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/icfp/task.htm is gone ... Anyone have a
> copy?
>
> -- Bert

Bert,

http://callisto.swiki.net  is now updated.    The stack machine and the
input are the remaining areas.   I have work commitments so I will be back
aboard tonight.

cheers,
Rob





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