[squeak-dev] Balloon3D - dead or alive?

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Mon Nov 16 23:28:47 UTC 2015


> On 16-11-2015, at 2:04 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> Balloon3D (and hence the Squeak3D plugin) has pretty much gone the way of the dodo.
> 

Ah, sad. If anyone is interested, it can actually be loaded with some hassle and that rotating cube does work, so maybe it could be rescued? Is is worth it?


> But B3DAcceleratorPlugin is still used to create an OpenGL context, e.g. in Croquet.
> 
>> Is there somewhere other than SM I might find an up to date version - or indeed anything else that would test the B3DAcceleratorPlugin?
> 
> Install OpenGL from here:
> 
> 	http://www.squeaksource.com/CroquetGL.html
> 
> and try “OpenGL example”.

OK, loaded easily enough and the example shows that the plugin is not working. It responds to the primitiveVersion ok but creating a gl context fails. I’ll poke it into gdb some day.

It’s nice to see vectors and quaternions in there though. Might help me with the damnably complex IMU in the Pi SenseHAT.


tim
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