I’m going to start taking notes of a few interesting articles/websites that I find each week in order to share them with others and preserve them for myself. And so begins Week One. Links will cover any article that I find interesting, but will largely be grounded in science and technology.
I have recently been looking for a C++ maths library for use in game development projects. There are plenty of posts on websites like gamedev.stackexchange.com with suggestions for libraries but few quantitative comparisons between them. I decided to take three of the most popular libraries and run some tests of my own. Below I describe the three libraries I’ve compared with their advantages and disadvantages and then show the results of some performance tests. It’s important for me to have cross-platform compatibility, so each library selected is header only and has been tested on Mac, Linux, and Android using the NDK. The code and results are also available on GitHub for testing.
The libraries tested are:
These choices are largely influenced by reading their websites and posts at the Game Development StackExchange site:
Through the run-up to Christmas 2011, the Mozilla Developer Network has been posting a link a day in their MDN Holiday Calendar. This post serves as a collection of those posts as a time-saver, but the site is worth checking out. Note that none of this is my work, the calendar was written by Chris Heilmann with additional links provided by Luke Crouch, Robert Nyman and Rob Hawkes. Source code is available on GitHub and there is a making of tutorial: Part 1 – Part 2.
Also note: this isn’t an error, at the time of writing numbers 2 and 10 point to the same URL. Number 10 also seems to have a broken quote with half missing! Despite this, some of these articles are really interesting!