Mittsu – 3D Graphics Library for Ruby

by jellymann • 10 years ago

56 13 10 years ago

onion2k• 10 years ago

Quite handy if you've just landed a job in a somewhat unusual 24hr bookshop.

(Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Penumbra%27s_24-Hour_Books... - the protagonist writes a 3D visualisation in Ruby. It's a good read.)

robinsloan• 10 years ago

Ha hahaha. Sure enough, I clicked this story b/c I was like, "Oh hey! That matches my interests!" ;)

robin_reala• 10 years ago

As an aside, mittsu (三つ) is the Japanese word for counting three things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_counter_word

cechner2• 10 years ago

nah thats mitsu (as in mitsubishi)

fenomas• 10 years ago

GP is correct. It's right there in the wikipedia link.

zachrose• 10 years ago

Mitsubishi means "three water chestnuts" and explains the three-rhombus logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi#History

robobro• 10 years ago

You should show PNGs of the example renders, maybe APNGs / GIFs of rotation or zooming. That would make me feel like downloading it more, if it looked neat

jellymann2• 10 years ago

I've added a few GIFs to the README now.

OhSoHumble• 10 years ago

Oh my, is the code for the tank example published anywhere? I didn't see anything in the examples directory but I could have missed it.

Edit: Looked through your repositories and here it is! https://github.com/jellymann/mittsu-tank-demo

ph0rque• 10 years ago

Sorry if this is an ignorant question, but does it run in the browser?

jellymann2• 10 years ago

No, it runs as a desktop app in a native window.

Meegul• 10 years ago

Interesting. I started my own work on something exactly like this, before giving up after realizing how poor the Ruby opengl perfomance is / how difficult proper graphics rendering can be. Nice to see some more graphics work being done with Ruby.

Mittsu – 3D Graphics Library for Ruby

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