Hello all, I was instructed on the #boost-soc channel to post the initial interest check on the GSoC proposal on the dev list, so here it is. It was inspired by one of the project proposals from 2006 (Geometry Library). As a known fact Boost begins to be used in the gaming industry. Following the idea of code reusage, there are several generic algorithms and components reused by virtually every 3d gaming engine. Most particulary this is 3D math. Sure, Boost has a linear algebra library graph algorithms, and a proposed geometry library, yet what is missing is a high-performance low-dimensional linear algebra library ( vectors and matrices up to the 4th dimension ). Side by side we have also a need of several 3-dimensional algorithms -- including, but not limited to intersection tests, inclusion tests, volume bounding, and several computational geometry algorithms. My suggestion would be creating a 3d specific geometry library for boost, with reasonable performance and the most used algorithms. I'd be happy to work on such a library as a GSoC project. My goal is to assess the initial interest in such an GSoC proposal idea before preparing and posting a more detailed description. -- regards, Kornel Kisielewicz http://chaosforge.org/