[fluxus] Write object to STL

[Alex]

Dave,
you can certainly include this into the release.  I could easily write
one that works with quads as well i think, if you'd like.  Is there
any way right now to test the way the verticies are interpreted when
an object is grabbed?  That would make doing this very nice because
the user wouldn't even have to think about which version to call.

I am using stl to import forms into a program which will then print
these forms on a 3d printer.  One of the issues is that I have to make
sure that the forms are not self intersecting and that it remains
solid (this is why I was making such a fuss about the "seam" on
spheres).
it would be awesome if fluxus had subdivision surfaces so that in
addition to manipulating existing verticies, new verticies could be
added, areas of objects could become more complex.

I was also thinking that it would be nice to have the ability to run
scripts as applications nice :)

another issue, that i'm sure has been brought up, is error reporting,
it is very difficult when the error output just says that there is a )
somewhere that is missing but gives no indication of where! at least
printing out the surrounding 2 lines or something could be useful.

-Alex

On 3/2/06, Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> wrote:
> > I've attached a file that allows for output of triangle based forms to
> > stl.
>
> a google search makes it look like this is a format for fabrication?
> sounds interesting :)
>
> anyway, this is great, and the right approach I think to i/o, and general
> geometric processing with fluxus. I'd like to put this in the release, if
> that's ok - we need to have a look at what we do with scheme scripts
> (although it sounds like Artem has this sorted) but I'd like to have a lot
> of extra functionality like this availible through scheme extensions. That
> way we can keep the C++ part of fluxus to mainly rendering, and a 3D maths
> lib.
>
> another thing I'd like to make possible is executable fluxus scripts that
> start off:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env fluxus
>
> so we can write scripts that you can treat as applications, and launch
> fluxus + execute with the script editor hidden. (think games :)
>
> cheers,
>
> dave
>
>