Re: [boost] Library Proposal: Boost.Geom 2D and 3D Geometric Primitives

From: Anis Benyelloul (benyelloul_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-22 04:40:41

Sérgio Vale e Pace <svpace.forum <at> gmail.com> writes:*
> Ahh, now I get it... I will take a look at your code.
(Thanks a lot for your time Sérgio !)

Well, just to make myself clear, here is a quote from the documentation
<quote>
One of the most important aspect of the library is its close integration with 
existing ones. That is, you surely already have some points&rectangles library 
you are happy with, in fact, you surely have some graphical library that 
imposes its own points and rectangles, and you don't want to use Boost.Geom if 
this means converting between Boost.Geom's stuff into you library's stuff, and 
vise-versa. You don't have to: you can make Boost.Geom compatible with any 
other points&rect library to take benefit of all features it has to offer and 
still be able to call (the zero cost) impl() member to obtain something your 
library wants, and to go back (at no cost) to Boost.Geom stuff you use function 
wrappers. This is just a matter of specializing some traits classes.
.....
But the general spirit is here: 
   - Close integration with already existing libraries.

   - Lots of handy features for every abstraction.

   - Not imposing additional overhead over a more simplistic library
</quote>

Also, it seems that there already has been some project similar (5 years ago): 
After having
a look at the "Boost Yahoo Group Files" I found something of a ``geomerty2D'' 
library (geometry2D/geometry2D.zip).
I still haven't looked at it closely, but seems limited to 2D and offering just
one implmentation. Well, maybe its author (Aleksey Gurtovoy) would like to join 
the party here !

I also have posted Geom in the Boost Yahoo Group Files section, filename: 
geom.zip

-- Anis Benyelloul