Python bindings for OpenSceneGraph 3D graphics API, created using Boost.Python and Py++

There exist already two projects that provide python bindings for OpenSceneGraph: osgswig and osgboostpython. So why am I trying to create yet another?

Currency: The competing project osgswig has not been updated for a couple of years (I'm writing in 2014). So I created a fork of osgswig (elsewhere) here on github, and I modified osgswig to work with OpenSceneGraph version 3.2.1. I also added support to osgswig for the osgVolume module. I learned enough about osgswig in this process to convince me that I would prefer to work with bindings based on Boost.Python, rather than on SWIG. So I created this osgpyplusplus project too.

Completeness: The other competing project, osgboostpython, contains impressive manually coded bindings based on Boost.Python. I predict that osgboostpython will never be complete, because manually coding those bindings is an overly ambitious goal. So I have chosen to use the Py++ code generator to automate the creation of Boost.Python bindings for OpenSceneGraph. I am fortunate to have the osgboostpython project available, to serve as a gold-standard touchstone for what these semi-automatically generated bindings should look like.

Control: I am maintaining an application (Neuroptikon) that depends critically on Python bindings for OpenSceneGraph. I appreciate having both projects controlled by me, so I can improve them together, without necessarily needing to negotiate features with others.

One special feature of these osgpyplusplus bindings is built-in API documentation. OpenSceneGraph source code contains DOXYGEN comments to document the API. osgpyplusplus parses these comments, and creates python docstrings, so they can be used for interactive API documentation. Further, these docstrings are formatted so that python API documentation could be generated using the epydoc tool. The intention is that the OpenSceneGraph python API documentation created with epydoc, would resemble the C++ documentation created with DOXYGEN.

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