On Saturday, 13 June 2015 at 10:37:39 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
On 13/06/2015 10:35 p.m., Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Saturday, 13 June 2015 at 08:45:20 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
[...]
I think there is a conflict of interest with what people want.
There
seem to be people like me who only want or need simple
matrices like glm
to do basic geometric/graphics related stuff. Then there is
the group of
people who want large 500x500 matrices to do weird crazy maths
stuff.
Maybe they should be kept separate? In which case then we are
really
talking about adding two different things. Maybe have a
std.math.matrix
and a std.blas?
IMO simple matrix is fine for a standard library. More complex
highly specialized math library yeah no. Not enough gain for
such a complex code.
Where as matrix/vector support for e.g. OpenGL now that will
have a high visibility to game devs.
Linear algebra for graphics is the specialised case, not the
other way around. As a possible name for something like gl3n in
phobos, I like std.math.geometry
