graphic animations

[DrXavier]

Well I have not programmed in C++ for some length of time, so I will need a reffresher. On that note, I have never really written a real world app in any language.

I would like to make a platform independant graphic animation software.
What I'd like to do is to start, with a mathematical plane, and allow the user to use the functions within the object to disort the surface.

Then Id like the computer to animate , in smooth 3d, the process from beginning to end - some approximation is acceptable

Then what I'd like to do is to create a compiler that will have this class embedded in it, so that The end user wont know how the mechanics work, but will know how to use the object, in order to make cool animations.

I may consider doing this in Maya, if I could learn it, but I tought that C++ would help me to be more platform independant.

[Banfa]

Hmmm, anything to do with graphics is inheriently NOT platform independent because you are using the platform hardware (the display) as an output device.

You may be able to find a platform independent graphics library you can call (depeneding on how many platforms you are aiming at).

Alternitively you write the code in 2 layers, the top layer contains all the maths and stuff to logically do the job you wish and the lower layer sort of abstracts the graphical interface so that it provides known calls to the upper layer (PlotPoint for instance) and then when these functions are called makes the required calls for the current platform. Sort of a graphics library of your own making.

Sounds like you want to be releasing the binary and the header file for your class, that is compile the source code into a binary library and then the users can link with that library and include the header into the own source in order to use your routines.