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December 28, 2007

PyFLAM3

Thanks to Bobby R. Ward for writing and releasing PyFLAM3, a Python wrapper around the FLAM3 renderer, which is written in the C programming language. This makes it much easier to script manipulation of flames and sheep, and would make a great foundation for a GUI editor.

The linux source distribution includes a patch to make FLAM3 generate a dynamically loadable shared object file. To apply it "cd" into the flam3 source folder, then say "patch < ..../pyflam3-0.3a/share/flam3-libtoolize.path". Unless you've used libtool before you should install it with "sudo apt-get install libtool" before you run "libtoolize ; autoconf" to complete the process. Then it's just "./configure ; make clean ; make ; sudo make install" as usual.

By default the shared object is installed into /usr/local/lib which means in order for it to be loaded you need to reconfigure ld.so or just say "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib" before using it.

This process, and this code, is still raw but it's already useful and working and I'm very excited about where it's going.

You may prefer to discuss or comment on this in the forum rather than below. Posted by spot at December 28, 2007 03:33 PM

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