Cocoa 3D Tutorial 0.4-alpha

Cocoa is the OO environment native on Mac OS X: its roots go back to NeXTstep, the revolutionary environment for the "black boxes", but, while the original system had its 3DKit to give a 3-dimensional base for applications, Cocoa has just a limited support for the underlying OpenGL engine, leaving the developer to deal with all the power but also all the intricacies of OpenGL...<br /><br />Thus, Cocoa 3D Tutorial has been developed to build a very simple bridge for the developers that are new to 3D programming, giving an easier to handle base to start experimenting and building 3D apps themselves. All the fundamental features are illustrated in tutorials, that allow the developer to quickly focus in few lines to the specific feature.<br /><br />Some capabilities of the library:<br /> . A scene tree, with cameras (one for each view) that can be easily positioned and oriented, and lights.<br /> . Object picking, that allows an interactive manipulation of the scene.<br /> . Factory classes for common objects (cube, sphere, cylinder, ...), groups and transformations.<br /> . Basic OpenGL optimizations (e.g. display lists)<br /> . Full support for OpenGL colors and materials.<br /> . Static textures (read from a graphic file or generated from a styled text), animated textures (read from movies), procedural fixed and animated textures (using configurable Perlin 2 & 3D noise).<br /> . Full support for ARB_vertex_program extension, seen as a special type of texture.<br /> . An animator class, that allows to easily add dynamic components to a scene. <br /><br />Future directions (in no particular order):<br /> . An import for common 3D formats (3ds, md2, md3, ...) to get complex meshes in the scene.<br /> . A "walking camera" class, to build walkthroughs of scenes.<br /> . ARB_fragment_program extension (as soon as it's implemented in OS X, that is...)<br /> . <Developers & users input here>...

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Mac, Mac OSX
Keyword:	Animated,  Classes,  Colors,  Common,  Configurable,  Display,  Factory,  Fixed,  Generated,  Graphic,  Interactive,  Lists,  Manipulation,  Materials,  Movies,  Procedural,  Static,  Styled,  Textures
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