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I frequently imagine the terror that junior computer graphics devs encounter when they realize you can't just "draw lines" in OpenGL.

• thriftwy 9y ago
  ...and there's no good reason why you can't, other than that in some iteration of API, frequent developers could not imagine why would anybody need that.
  • iopuy 9y ago
    Isn't it because everything is represented as triangles? That is fundamental to how openGL works I believe.
    • thriftwy 9y ago
      Everything can be represented in terms of everything else. It's a matter of caring, or not caring, about convenience.
• milesvp 9y ago
  Oh dear lord yes. I was struggling to just plot some points on a plane 15 years ago, something I'd done trivially in class years prior. I finally complained to a friend, and that's how I learned about python and pygame. Damn near changed my life.