Material Abstraction

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Description

This keeps track of the implementation of the material_t type. We currently don't know whether to have a separate type for each material type or just have a single object that handles types by an enum.

One of the key differences with our previous implementation is that a given material type (e.g. LAMBERT) should be linked to a specific shader (or shader chunk). This is similar to how ThreeJS handles materials, and it looks that their master-shader approach is the best option going onward with our material system implementation.

Tasks

• Core implementation (base material?)
• Material types
  • Basic Material
  • Lambert Material
  • Phong Material
  • Shader Material
• Examples of usage (C++)
• Implement Python bindings
• Examples of usage (Python)
• Documentation (API auto-generated by Sphinx)
• Documentation (.rst custom made related to usage)