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Re: [pygame] OpenGL (was blitting...)



>> One other thing that nobody ever told me, nor did I see on any
>> website, is that OpenGL is really really similar to Postscript in
>> some ways. If someone had told me that going in, I would have picked
>> it up faster because I monkeyed around with scratch-writing Postcript
>> by cribbing from the PS Blue and Red books back in the day.

> Thanks for that, Alan!  You just gave me my first OpenGL "Aha!" moment. So 
> with an OpenGL program, I am effectively writing a program that writes 
> another program.

I'm not so sure about that aspect, which isn't all that similar to
opengl. I was thinking of the commands like moveto, lineto, rotate,
showpage and postscript's graphics state stack.

Alan