On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Luke Crook luke@balooga.com wrote:
[perfectstorm] looks like a substantial application.
To be honest I can't evaluate that from a few screenshots. Some people are more savvy about making screenshots early and often than others.
It was built using Common Lisp and OpenGL. Now you know it can be done.
I really wouldn't know what was actually done... except that the author just pointed me at the last source code distro, so now I can check. :-) http://erleuchtet.org/~cupe/perfectstorm-dist.tar.gz
Isn't that sufficient?
Compared to my original questions, I really don't think so. It proves that the author got started in that direction, not that he finished, or that people generally do finish and sustain such projects. He did say, however, that he did something substantial with cl-opengl for a medical engineering visualization job. Someone else was responsible for packaging up the Windows .exe. So "yes," someone has done it, which is a good thing to know. I just can't look at those results.
Cheers, Brandon Van Every