2011 09 23 13:10 Patterns

2011-09-23 13:10 Patterns

I found a cool website with software for generating scratch hologram patterns: http://3dalter.50megs.com/ Unfortunately, the guy's email inbox is "frozen", so I can't currently get a copy. I sent him a message on Youtube, though, so I may still get to use his program. I'm also trying to see if I can create my own version. Basically, all I would have to do is make a program to read something like a Google Sketchup file and then parse it into a scratch pattern.

A couple of options: SketchUp has a Ruby API that I might be able to use. Alternatively, there's the http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycollada/ package for reading the collada files, which are apparently the basis for the Google Earth file format. Ruby might be a more interesting approach in terms of learning new things.