OpenGL in Perl and textures

japhy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Because my GD approach to creating a 3-D maze is running a little more slowly than I'd like, I'm considering using OpenGL. There's little to no documentation that I've found about using Perl's OpenGL interface (such as through OpenGL). My specific question is about using textures: how do I do this in Perl? I've never even done it in C, but I'm hoping someone out there has. What sort of image can be used?

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Re: OpenGL in Perl and textures by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 26, 2005 at 08:27 UTC
I have had good success with OpenGL::Simple and OpenGL::Simple::GLUT. The other stuff is hard to compile and mimics the (C oriented) OpenGL API while OpenGL::Simple trades efficiency against ease of use.	[reply]
Re: OpenGL in Perl and textures by Anonymous Monk on Feb 26, 2005 at 04:12 UTC
Read about Tels' project.	[reply]
Re: OpenGL in Perl and textures by holli (Abbot) on Feb 27, 2005 at 11:20 UTC
The Perl Data Language (PDL) and the Simple Direct Media Layer (SDL) may be interesting for you. You can use the first one for calculation of your 3d-matrices, the latter is a platform independent Graphics engine that has a perl interface. holli, /regexed monk/	[reply]
Re^2: OpenGL in Perl and textures by etj (Deacon) on Jun 22, 2022 at 19:37 UTC
And with PDL::Graphics::TriD you can also display 3D data using PDL. See `demo 3d` in `perldl` for more.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: OpenGL in Perl and textures by perlfan (Vicar) on Feb 27, 2005 at 00:59 UTC
You can use any type of image as long as you can read in the file and create a 2d array of rgb(and alpha) values for each pixel. I am not sure about Perl's interface. This .tgz file contains some C++ code I did for a class I took a while back used textures in BMP format. HFieldBDE.tgz Note, the code use's VRCO's cavelibs, so it won't work out of the box, but the textures stuff is still relevant.	[reply]
Re: OpenGL in Perl and textures by drfrog (Deacon) on Feb 27, 2005 at 06:38 UTC
you might want to dig into freewrl freewrl.sourceforge.net it is a perl/opengl based vrml browser	[reply]
Re: OpenGL in Perl and textures by digitalnoises (Initiate) on Feb 28, 2005 at 01:41 UTC
Did you look at the "Building 3D Engines In Perl" Perl.com article by Geoff Broadwell? It is relevant to building a 3D maze program, with textures, using Perl and OpenGL. You might want to read it. Part1: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/01/3d_engine.html Part2: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/29/3d_engine.html	[reply]
Re: OpenGL in Perl and textures by grafman (Acolyte) on Jul 15, 2008 at 18:42 UTC
POGL's OpenGL::Image provides a portable method for loading/saving images/textures - by sharing buffers between the GPU and common imaging libraries like ImageMagick.	[reply]
Re: OpenGL in Perl and textures by JohnMG (Beadle) on Oct 08, 2005 at 21:30 UTC
I've just started using OpenGL::Simple and OpenGL::Simple::GLUT and have put up some notes on the subject: http://www.simisen.com/jmg/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PerlOpenGL	[reply]


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