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Overview

LambdaCube 3D is Haskell-like purely functional domain specific language for programming the GPU (graphics processing unit).

During the years the project had lot of rewrite and reconfiguration. It was a long journey from a Haskell OGRE clone to a graphics EDSL and finally to a standalone compiler. Read more on project history page.

Project homepage: http://lambdacube3d.com

Download

LambdaCube 3D on GitHub

History

2015-04-14 - New homepage: http://lambdacube3d.com
2015-02-14 - First working DSL compiler
2014-11-?? - The focus turns for the DSL implementation
2012-08-15 - Started development blog
2012-03-?? - The project was reborn as an EDSL for GPU graphics programming
2011-06-23 - The second big release which already includes a more advanced Bullet binding and the Stunts example; details in the announcement
2009-11-18 - The first release on Hackage: engine and examples, plus a bullet example that will eventually grow into a library
2009-09-22 - The summer report was presented at the JSSP meeting
2009-08-10 - Major public commit that went with the mid-summer report
2009-05-12 - Project announced to be among the JSSP winners
2009-03-31 - Application for Jane Street Summer Project sent in
2009-01-?? - Development started

Screenshots of previous iterations

2012-06 - LC DSL Q3 example

2012-06 - LC DSL Stunts example

2009-11 - Hackage release

2009-09 - JSSP meeting

Tile Racer track loader:

Bullet physics integration:

2009-03 - Pre-summer mock-up

Licence

The code is released under BSD3.

The engine and the examples not using physics build out of the box on a fresh Haskell Platform install under Windows. If Bullet is installed, the Stunts example should also be possible to get running with cabal-install.

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 == Overview ==
-LambdaCube is a 3D rendering engine entirely written in Haskell.
+LambdaCube 3D is Haskell-like purely functional domain specific language for programming the GPU (graphics processing unit).
-The main goal of this project is to provide a modern and feature rich graphical backend for various Haskell projects, and in the long run it is intended to be a practical solution even for serious purposes. The engine uses [http://www.ogre3d.org Ogre3D]'s [http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/manual/manual_9.html#SEC12 mesh] and [http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/manual/manual_14.html#SEC23 material] file format, therefore it should be easy to find or create new content for it. The code sits between the low-level C API (raw OpenGL, DirectX or anything equivalent; the engine core is graphics backend agnostic) and the application, and gives the user a high-level API to work with.
+During the years the project had lot of rewrite and reconfiguration.
+It was a long journey from a Haskell OGRE clone to a graphics EDSL and finally to a standalone compiler.
+Read more on [http://lambdacube3d.com/history project history] page.
-An application building on LambdaCube is composed of the following layers:
+Project homepage: [http://lambdacube3d.com/ http://lambdacube3d.com]
-{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
+== Download ==
-| colspan="5" align="center" style="background: #ccccff" | application
-|-
-| colspan="2" style="background: #ffffcc" | &nbsp;
-| colspan="3" align="center" style="background: #ccffcc" | optional components
-|-
-| colspan="5" align="center" style="background: #ffffcc" | generic core
-|-
-| colspan="5" align="center" style="background: #ffcccc" | render system
-|-
-| align="center" style="background: #cccccc" | native OpenGL
-| align="center" | or
-| align="center" style="background: #cccccc" | DirectX
-| align="center" | or
-| align="center" style="background: #cccccc" | ...
-|}
-* optional components: e.g. loaders for various formats, physics engine
-* generic core: resource handling, script loading, rendering
-* render system: a thin abstraction layer to unify low-level APIs
-== News ==
+[https://github.com/lambdacube3d LambdaCube 3D on GitHub]
+== History ==
+* 2015-04-14 - New homepage: [http://lambdacube3d.com/ http://lambdacube3d.com]
+* 2015-02-14 - First working DSL compiler
+* 2014-11-?? - The focus turns for the DSL implementation
+* 2012-08-15 - Started development [http://lambdacube3d.wordpress.com/ blog]
+* 2012-03-?? - The project was reborn as an EDSL for GPU graphics programming
+* 2011-06-23 - The second big release which already includes a more advanced Bullet binding and the Stunts example; details in the [http://just-bottom.blogspot.com/2011/06/renewed-lambdacube-bullet-bindings-and.html announcement]
 * 2009-11-18 - The first release on Hackage: [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lambdacube-engine engine] and [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lambdacube-examples examples], plus a [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lambdacube-bullet bullet example] that will eventually grow into a library
 * 2009-09-22 - The summer report was presented at the [http://ocaml.janestcapital.com/?q=node/68 JSSP meeting]
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 * 2009-01-?? - Development started
-== Download ==
+== Screenshots of previous iterations ==
+=== 2012-06 - LC DSL Q3 example ===
-[http://code.google.com/p/lambdacube/ LambdaCube repository at Google Code]
+[[Image:Lc-q3.png|800px|Quake3 example]]
-== Todo ==
+=== 2012-06 - LC DSL Stunts example ===
-* Must have:
+[[Image:Lc-stunts-1.png|800px|Stunts example]]
-** (DONE) light setup
-** (DONE) frustum culling
-** skeletal animation
-** shadow mapping
-** full shader support
-** LOD support
-* Medium priority:
-** texture effects
-** overlay support + font rendering
-** terrain support (heightmap with LOD, cf. [http://www.andrasbalogh.com/RangerMk2/ SOAR])
-** binary loader for the native Ogre format
-** framework for supporting various shaders (glsl, Cg)
-** (DONE) rewrite to [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenGLRaw OpenGLRaw]
-* Low priority:
-** particle system
-** volumetric clouds
-** imposters
-** Collada support
-** mesh modelling interface
-* Long term:
-** Quake3 map loader (BSP support)
-== Screenshots ==
+[[Image:Lc-stunts-2.png|800px|Stunts example]]
 === 2009-11 - Hackage release ===
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 The code is released under BSD3.
-== Features ==
+The engine and the examples not using physics build out of the box on a fresh Haskell Platform install under Windows. If Bullet is installed, the Stunts example should also be possible to get running with cabal-install.
-* [http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/manual/manual_9.html#SEC12 Mesh file format]
-** Geometry is supported
-* [http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/manual/manual_14.html#SEC23 Material Script]
-== Dependencies ==
-* Core library:
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenGL OpenGL] - to be dropped completely in favour of [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenGLRaw OpenGLRaw]
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/uulib uulib] - used for parsing scripts
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/alex alex] - used for parsing scripts
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/fgl fgl] - scene graph handling
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/zip-archive zip-archive]
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hslogger hslogger]
-* Optional components:
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stb-image stb-image] - image loader
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml xml] - Ogre interchange format loader
-* Examples:
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GLFW GLFW]
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/elerea elerea]
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bullet Bullet Physics binding]
-The engine and the examples not using physics build out of the box on a fresh Haskell Platform install under Windows.
 [[Category:Applications]]
 [[Category:3D]]