On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Edward George wrote:
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:35:14 +0200 (CEST), Tom Schouten doelie@zzz.kotnet.org wrote:
actually, i would be surprized if there isn't any code for this floating around on the internet, maybe using some intermediate format.. so many crazy people out there :)
Now, processing [http://processing.org] (a java api designed for easily creating visual stuff by non-programmers) has postscript and illustrator export libraries so you *could* connect to a processing java applet via a socket and send it the GEM commands too (i've never really played with GEM so don't know the commands) which it'd interpret and create its own 3d objects and could then generate the eps (it handling all the 3d to 2d stuff)
Just a crazy idea
there you have it :)
another thing that might be interesting is this python pdf engine. i forgot the name but i saw a presentation about it on a dorkbot meeting in gent. basicly, as far as i understand, it's a wrapper around OSX's pdf engine and it enables you to do generative page design.
there was this nice hack where they generated the python code to generate a pdf from some syntax description. looks like a powerful framework. only OSX though..