On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Julien Jorge <julien.jorge@stuff-o-matic.com
wrote:
Le Mon, 4 Mar 2013 09:27:05 -0800, "Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr." <jeffrey.hellrung@gmail.com> a écrit :
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Michael Marcin <mike.marcin@gmail.com>wrote:
Julien Jorge wrote:
Hello,
I would like to propose the Boost.Tweener library for preliminary submission.
The purpose of the Boost.Tweener library is to provide solutions to interpolate the intermediate values between two given values during a time interval. Various easing functions can be applied to control the computation of the intermediate values. I felt the need of such a library while developing games but I have also seen this need in various animation softwares.
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I would prefer Boost.Tween to Boost.Tweener.
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I haven't looked at the library, but just want to comment on the name. Is "tween" some kind of standard term? Because I'm only familiar with it in the context of the first wikipedia result when searching for "tween" or "tweener", and I don't see anything regarding interpolation save for "inbetweening" (standard animation term). Something like Boost.Interpolation might better convey the library's intent, I think.
- Jeff
I think that Boost.Interpolation would be too generic and misleading because the library's interface is more about animating than general interpolation. For example, I think that someone searching to interpolate the colors of the pixels of a scaled image would not find the library really useful.
Has you have noticed, "inbetweening" is the right term in animation. In most libraries I have seen, the term "tweener" is used to name an object that computes the intermediate values during the movement and the verb "to tween" is used to describe the fact that an interpolation is done. I am not sure that there is a standard for the tween/tweener terms.
Sounds like everyone knows what they're talking about except me :) - Jeff