On 9/25/2024 2:30 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote:
Please correct me if I'm wrong. LMTX has Metapost built in then can we not write a pure lua extension of it to do real 3D probably using Vulkan?
You're kidding right? Interfacing to some huge system that dwarfs the luametatex code base, creates a horrible dependency on what is fashion today (and replaced in a few years by what is then the fashion in graphics), adds plenty of runtime while in practice one can just create these graphics externally once and then include them. If we talk 3d in mp we mean simple 3d for visualizing data and so. For artwork one should use programs made for that purpose (fwiw, going over the top in tikz runtime also makes little sense). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------