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.

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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