Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Sep 2007 13:34 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Coupled with it being relatively fast and having a very lenient license, it has gained a following among game developers for providing a viable scripting interface. It has been used in games such as World of Warcraft and Far Cry, and in applications such as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Snort."
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I'm fairly sure all the examples are running on Linux. UIC has a distributed rendering framework being used with Electro to run it across multiple screens (and also across computers running those screens). I think it's even setup so that the rendering can take place at another location, even across continents. That part is separate from Electro.
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There's a project built on Lua called Electro that adds physics handling and some other nice features to Lua. It's open source and runs on Linux/Mac/Windows.
It's largely used at my school UIC and I'm using it for a VR class with stereoscopic polarized glasses, 3D head or other trackers and input devices, but can be used on a regular desktop as well. It might be worth checking out.
http://www.evl.uic.edu/rlk/electro/