Re: [boost] [gsoc] Interest check for 3d geometry proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc] Interest check for 3d geometry proposal
From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-27 16:33:24

Fernando Cacciola wrote:
> Hi Kornel,
> 
> FWIW, after all this thread I still feel that it not sufficiently clear 
> what you propose to work on, and how do you plan to manage to apparent 
> or actual overlap between your proposal and related projects.
> 
> So, can you TOP POST a message with summary of your proposal but with 
> sufficient detail so potential metors can evaluate it?
> 
> Make sure to contrast that very carefully with exiting libraries and 
> proposals, inclusing Quaternions (which already exists), Boost.SIMD, 
> Spatial Indexes from Federico Fernandez, GTl and GLL.
> 

One thing boost doesn't have is a fixed-size matrix class, which could 
be used with boost::array as a building block for a lot of the more 
game-specific tech involved.  Seems to me a boost::matrix class 
(essentially a 2d boost::array) would be of reasonable scope/difficulty 
for a GSOC project.  If there's time left over, one could investigate 
making optimized rotations, dot projects, reflections and the like as 
freestanding functions/operators in a special namespace somewhere.

-t