[Haskell-cafe] ANN: mecha-0.0.5

[John Lask]

On 6/06/2011 3:58 AM, Tom Hawkins wrote:

> Another goal of the project is to generate 2D prints from 3D models.
> Any idea how hard is this going to be?  Basically it needs to identify
> features (holes, edges, etc), then project these features to an
> orthographic plane, alone with associated dimensions.
>


are you familiar with Jan Sabinski's solid modelling in Haskell 
http://web.archive.org/web/20010605003250/http://www.numeric-quest.com/haskell/

he implements 3D projects onto 2D plane (although no feature selection 
etc) and is more a proof of principle.

if you are interested in industrial strength solutions, I can recommend 
the openCascade (http://www.opencascade.org/) library. A Haskell binding 
would be very useful and something that I have thought about doing for 
some time, but alas had no time for.

jvl