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APL seems like a great language for computer graphics! Has anyone tried their hands at the same?

Someone made a 3D boating simulation using Finnish island geodata; called StormWinds and using Dyalog APL connecting to DirectX - https://www.dyalog.com/case-studies/simulation.htm

The author also has this video: https://dyalog.tv/APLSeeds21/?v=iC9floP7POU "Tomas takes you through the API of a 3D-engine and shows you how to connect to it from APL, enabling you to create a simple scene with graphics objects moving in real-time. He also explores some of the more advanced rendering techniques." (I haven't watched it)

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/tree/gh-pages/ike

https://beyondloom.com/tools/specialk.html

This well-known J dude has done some: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzK2SazvCxM

And J is almost isomorphic to APL.

J has much easier access to graphics with bindings to a window driver and OpenGL .

APL also has support for GUI apps (Windows only) using .NET, but graphics takes some additional effort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC9floP7POU

I don't know if APL supports graphics, but ngn/k, an implementation of K, a language in the APL family, has JS support in its official online playground [0], which can be used for displaying graphics.

[0]: https://ngn.codeberg.page/k/#

I'm using APL to build graphics for a hardware startup. You can see an example of the device, called Bloxl, and its graphics in this video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AUEIgfj9koc

More pics and videos at: https://bloxl.co

My April APL compiler has a terminal graphics application as one of its demos, which you can see in this folder: https://github.com/phantomics/april/tree/master/demos/ncurse...

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