Welcome to Pycao’s documentation!

The first document is to help you decide whether Pycao is suitable for your needs

• Discover Pycao
  • What is Pycao in a few words ?
  • Is Pycao a Povray modeller ? What are the supported formats ?
  • How is designed the pycao code ? What are the objectives.
  • I am new to 3D. What are the alternatives to pycao ?
  • Is it free software ?
  • Acknowledgments

Then, there is a tutorial.

• Installation
  • Perequisites and Download
  • Check the installation
  • Preparing your future projects
  • Practice
• Notations for points and vectors
  • Points, vectors and barycenters
  • Reminder on points and Vectors
• Construction of simple objects
  • Examples
• Translating Objects
  • Hooks
  • More markers and translations
• Rotating objects
  • Syntax
  • Illustration
• Maths
  • Linear and affine maps
  • Rotations
  • Shortcuts
• Genealogy and Compounds
  • Genealogy
  • Cameras and the genealogy system
  • Compounds
  • Genealogy versus Compound
• CSG
  • Union
  • Intersection and difference
• Markers
  • Types of Markers
  • Hooks and Lines
  • Boxes
  • Usual ( parallelipedic ) boxes
  • Cylboxes (aka cylindrical boxes)
• Curves and Ruled Surfaces over Curves
  • Notations for the control points
  • Polyline and Bezier Curves
  • Interpolation and Piecewise curves
  • Ruled Surfaces built on curves
  • Lathe
• Bodies and Skeletons
  • Bodies
  • Skeletons
• Cameras
  • The actors
  • Visibility
• Lights
• Material
  • Simple use of Colors and textures
  • Defining our textures
  • Changing the textures
  • Moving, gluing, relaxing
  • Some constructs
• Remarks
  • Aliases
  • Maps and vectors
• Going beyond
  • ipython

And finally some advanced technical doc for devs and advanced users.

• Technical documentation for developpers or advanced users
  • The objectsIn World of pycao
  • Moving the objects and the genealogy system
  • Decomposable and primitive Objects: why we need them
  • Markers
  • Technical implementation of the Markers
  • Elaborate and primitive Objects: how they are implemented
  • Rendering Objects
  • CSG generalities
  • Taking copies or not in CSG (This section outdated)
  • CSG and visibility
  • CSG and slave terminology
  • CSG and compatibility with the parenting system
  • The Compound class vs genealogy system
  • Implementation of CSG operations
  • Implementation of compounds
  • Architecture in Brief
  • Architecture in Detail (OUTDATED FROM HERE)
  • mathutils.py
  • elaborate.py
  • DONE
  • TODO