Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Clive Tovero]

Personally, I side with the approach of Emacs rather than Blender.  I've 
been using Emacs since 1985 on TOPS-20.  I'm working on a set of 
extensions to Emacs do do 3D modeling without the cockpit-like interface 
of Blender.  I use "Emacs" in the general sense, and include 
MIT-Scheme's Edwin, Dylan's Deuce, CL's Portable Hemlock, or QEmacs by 
Fabrice Bellard as candidates for my system.  Someone did a video 
editing app on Emacs a number of years ago (looks like it might be 
abandoned, but waiting):

https://gneve-webma-dev.blogspot.com/

My summary from a private message to RMS yesterday (he keeps asking me 
to volunteer for GNU, and I am trying to do that):

> My project is adding extensions to Emacs to provide the functionality 
that the free software program Blender provides--but without the GUI and 
using code.  Blender is a program to model, animate, edit, and produce 
CG movies.  The models can be used for 3D printing.  It is very popular, 
and nice, but its interface looks like the cockpit of a 747.  I get lost 
among the widgets.  OpenSCAD is another similar project, without a 
GUI--but has its own modeling language.

> My software provides 3D model functional graphical modeling, a 
relatively new technique to express geometry with the potential 
expressiveness of the lambda calculus.  Models in my software are 
specified in Lisp (most dialects could be used), a very natural language 
for the domain.  Previous work:

> https://common-lisp.net/project/tovero/
> https://common-lisp.net/project/clive

> I've made quite a bit of progress in the past two years (mostly 
unpublished).

> I have written a demo viewer in Guile running under Emacs with Geiser 
to show more proof of concept:

> https://gitlab.com/kavalogic-inc/inspekt3d

> Again, I would like to work with GNU on this, and I'm still open to 
it, but I just haven't been able connect for some reason.