From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, ocaml-opengl <opengl@lists.ocaml.org>,
"Török Edwin" <edwin@etorok.net>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] standard 3d vector library in OCaml
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 11:23:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F510569F0D0C4C20909DBE5AB732DFD5@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE1DttARsrCZTF4FPj5Hzu1tjFiMEqj94rgYzFqfTacmLo5B+w@mail.gmail.com>
> 2013/5/8, Francois Berenger:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there a standard library for this purpose?
It's not standard, unreleased and I hate to pre-announce but in the following months I plan to release Gg, a module that gives you basic types for 2D and 3D computer graphics; vectors, matrices, quaternions, axis-aligned boxes, colors and raster data.
Vectors and matrices are abstract but represented internally as records of floats. This allows to pass them directly to C functions that take double arrays and avoids bounds checking in OCaml code. The memory layout of matrices is also the one expected by OpenGL.
Except for the Raster module --- metadata for bigarrays to allow libraries to share raster data without depending on each other e.g. an OpenCV or image loading library and an OpenGL library --- the module is pretty stable now, it still needs a final code review though and one or two function names may change.
The current documentation of gg can be found here [1], the code can be browsed here [2]. It can also be installed via the erratique-unstable opam repo:
opam repo add erratique-unstable http://erratique.ch/software/opam-unstable
opam update
opam install gg
But I'd advise you not to that until the next release of opam because of this bug [3] which while harmless makes your `opam update` experience become unpleasant (you have to do a `opam remove gg`, before being able to `opam update`).
Comments are welcome.
Best,
Daniel
[1] http://erratique.ch/software/gg/doc/Gg.html
[2] https://github.com/dbuenzli/gg/
[3] https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues/552
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-09 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-07 7:04 [Caml-list] ECSCW 2013: Call for Work-in-Progress Announce Announcements
2013-05-08 2:32 ` [Caml-list] standard 3d vector library in OCaml Francois Berenger
2013-05-08 13:55 ` Florent Monnier
2013-05-09 10:23 ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2013-05-09 20:27 ` [ocaml-opengl] " Florent Monnier
2013-05-09 22:01 ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-05-10 15:48 ` Florent Monnier
2013-05-10 17:01 ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-05-10 17:11 ` Anthony Tavener
2013-05-10 10:15 ` rixed
2013-05-15 1:08 ` Francois Berenger
2013-05-10 2:10 ` Francois Berenger
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