Elm Town 49 – Sixteen 3D Spinners Should Be Enough For Most People

Ian Mackenzie shares the history of elm-geometry, elm-units and elm-3d-scene, and how he hopes to one day see them used to design a world-championship-winning robot – or a skyscraper. Thank you to our sponsor, Culture Amp. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 18 Mar 2020 Guest Ian Mackenzie (@ianemackenzie) Show Notes 00:00:00 Intro and sponsors 00:01:05 elm-geometry and elm-3d-scene elm-geometry (Elm Packages) elm-3d-scene (GitHub) "A 3D rendering engine for Elm" at elm-conf 2019 (YouTube) 00:02:02 How Ian got into Elm FIRST Robotics Competition “Now you're thinking in functions" at elm-europe 2018 (YouTube) Dart dart-sass V8 JavaScript Engine Flutter Qt 2008 World Championship – 1114 Simbotics Arup (website) MassMotion crowd simulation software elm-units (Elm Packages) 00:19:18 API design lessons from elm-geometry “Now you're thinking in functions" at elm-europe 2018 (YouTube) Matthieu Pizenberg (website) Martin Stewart (Tretton37) Joël Quenneville (Twitter) 00:30:37 elm-3d-scene elm-3d-scene (GitHub) "A 3D rendering engine for Elm" at elm-conf 2019 (YouTube) 00:37:46 Ambient lighting 00:44:50 Transparency and graphics programming hacks 00:46:50 Real-world vs screen units 00:48:23 Creating a generic framework 00:49:55 What's left before 1.0 Contributing to elm-3d-scene (GitHub) 00:53:37 Using elm-3d-scene today 00:55:02 Thankyous & Outro