Re: [boost] Geometry/Vector Lib

From: Marcus Lindblom (macke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-10 08:43:24

Michael Marcin wrote:
> Janek Kozicki wrote:
>   
>> Marcus Lindblom said:     (by the date of Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:28:56 +0200)
>>
>>     
>>> Perhaps we can make it so that you can decouple access style from the 
>>> general algorithms? We might need that anyway, if we want to support 
>>> things like rgba, stqr, etc, for the small 1-4 element vectors.
>>>       
>> interesting idea, compare:
>>
>> - iterators <-> continers
>> - member access <-> vectors
>>
>> maybe with MPL it's possible to define that 'custom' access method.
>>
>>     
>
> It would be very cool if you could swizzle the components for small 
> vectors cheaply into views ala high level shader languages.  I.E.
>   
The syntax might be a bit tricky to get right. I'm fairly sure it's not 
possible to do exactly the same thing, but we might be able to get 
something similar.

/Marcus