[Haskell-cafe] Pixel plotter

[Andrew Coppin]

Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Sunday 14 October 2007 13:31:56 Andrew Coppin wrote:
>   
>> PS. I've investigated existing APIs and I'm not seeing anything that
>> looks useful. Lots of support for drawing lines and arcs and so on, but
>> not for plotting individual pixels.
>>     
>
> I highly recommend OpenGL. Even if you are just filling texture maps for now, 
> you have a future proof way to do far more sophisticated graphics.
>   

...just... the irony of using OpenGL to write a software ray tracer. ;-)

Oh, and the irony of using OpenGL (an API of unimaginable complexity) 
just to write pixels to the screen. Isn't that kind of like using a 
thermonuclear device to crack a nut?