"Nigel Stewart" wrote
Something similarly scoped to my own C++ math/geometry functionality would be of great interest...
http://www.nigels.com/glt/doc/group___math.html
Bounding box, ray, plane, 3x3 matrix, 4x4 matrix, 2d, 3d and 4d vectors...
It looks very interesting. I am unclear as to your intents with it though. Are you suggesting that code as a basis for a boost effort? AFAIK there would be difficulties re the license as a basis for a boost library I think. The OpenGL stuff is very interesting (see below re a viewer). I think there needs to be a cut off between geometry and graphics though. Its difficult to know where that cut off is, though I would have thought a bounding box , ray etc would be clearly graphics rather than geometry? I would guess that an initial aim for the project could be to identify the minimal essential geometry primitives/ and functions. There are for instance various ways to represent a line and so on. But some features keep cropping up e.g I'm glad to see the matrices, though it looks like quaternions must be included too. OTOH a geometry library makes much more sense if you can see what you are doing visually, so a simple portable Viewer based on OpenGL might also be a useful basic requirement. As I understand it its relatively easy and portable to do this using GLUT ( though I guess you'd know a lot more about that ? ), Maybe a cross-platform stand alone graphics viewer would be a good pre-requisite to a geometry project... regards Andy Little