Pedal

Procedural Environment Description and Animation Language

¹ped·al

('pe-d^&l) noun
Middle French pedale, from Italian, from Latin pedalis, adjective
circa. 1611

1 : a lever pressed by the foot in the playing of a musical instrument (as an organ or piano)
2 : a foot lever or treadle by which a part is activated in a mechanism

I have just revived pedal after around a year away from doing any prgramming (bar alot of perl reporting, Im a firewall admin by trade).

The original work was done as part of my Bachelor of Science from kings college london. By the end of the project it was possible to write fairly , grammatically, complex scripts and generate RenderMan .rib files for rendering. The spline based interpolation was working on four value, and four point arrays, 4 abitrary arrays kind of worked in the sense that a segfault occurred, but I knew why :)

The original code was hacked together on a major Caffeine high and with almost no design work at all, my intention with reviving the project is essentially to start againa nd do it right.

No code has been released at this time, the code in the CVS will be shrinking before it grows, and even if it compiles, it wont do anything very useful for a long time, If you are interested inb helping out be aware of this.