On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 17:56:53 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
Matrix math is matrix math, it being for ogl makes no real difference.
I think it’s a little more complicated than that. BLAS and LAPACK (or variants on them) are low-level matrix math libraries that many higher-level libraries call. Few people actually use BLAS directly. So, clearly, not every matrix math library is the same. What differentiates BLAS from Armadillo is that you can be far more productive in Armadillo because the syntax is friendly (and quite similar to Matlab and others).
There’s a reason why people use glm in C++. It’s probably the most productive way to do matrix math with OpenGL. However, it may not be the most productive way to do more general matrix math. That’s why I hear about people using Armadillo, Eigen, and Blaze, but I’ve never heard anyone recommend using glm. Syntax matters.
