http://functy.sourceforge.net 3D function rendering Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:38:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Binary packages of Functy 0.22 are now available in .deb and .rpm format. I threw these together this weekend without having a great deal of understanding of what I was doing, so it's possible they're just a mess and won't work at all. As I use Ubuntu I'm not able to ... http://functy.sourceforge.net/?p=230 I'm pleased to say that version 0.22 of Functy is now ready for release. Although this version does fix some bugs, the main improvement is that there's now an automatic installer for Windows users. Get it from the download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=259651 Release notes are also available: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=259651&release_id=692280 http://functy.sourceforge.net/?p=223 Oops. After releasing version 0.2 I immediately found a couple of bugs! So version 0.21 is now available as a minor bug-fix release over 0.2. You can get it from the download page: https://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=259651 Release notes are also available: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=259651&release_id=690043 http://functy.sourceforge.net/?p=217 Functy is a 3D graph drawing package. The emphasis for the application is to allow Cartesian and spherical functions to be plotted and altered quickly and easily. This immediacy and the vivid results are intended to promote fun exploration of 3D functions. Functy can be built for GNU/Linux or Windows. This ... http://functy.sourceforge.net/?p=205 Time for another demo video. This time I've tried to create a 2D function on a 3D surface by playing around with the colours of some function. In the 90s I used to love watching clever computer demos. One of the visual effects that was sometimes used was that of viscous ... http://functy.sourceforge.net/?p=170 [caption id="attachment_195" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Function using spherical co-ordinates"][/caption] So far Functy has worked only using Cartesian co-ordinates, but I'm currently working on code for the next release to allow functions to be defined using spherical co-ordinates too. Spherical function plotting is already working as you can see in the screenshot. It seems ... http://functy.sourceforge.net/?p=188 If you'd like to help improve Functy there are loads of ways you can, be it by coding, designing, translating, scripting or just generally being creative. Take a look at the Contribute page that's just been added if you want to find out how, or wander over to the Contributors ... http://functy.sourceforge.net/?p=173 Here's a short video to demonstrate how you could use Functy to create an island scene. Three functions are used: one for the islands themselves, another for the wavy sea and finally a third function for the clouds in the sky above. It was actually for the creation of landscapes like ... http://functy.sourceforge.net/?p=164 Functy is now using Trac as its project management solution. Having had it recommended by a friend and used it internally for some time, it offers some really good functionality and works well. The intention is to use it for all sorts of things like bug reports, documentation and general ... http://functy.sourceforge.net/?p=111 So far Functy has led a largely insular life, not venturing outside of the SourceForge community. And there's been good reason for this. Functy is only young, and not yet very stable. And let's face it: SourceForge provides pretty much everything a growing project like this could need. It's important ... http://functy.sourceforge.net/?p=103