[Bf-committers] How about adding boost uBLAS library to blender/extern?

[Benoit Bolsee]

Thanks for the links.
The moto and BLI_arithb.h libraries are not useful because they work on
fixed size matrices. The superlu solver is for another type of equation
than what we need for IK. It has some BLAS functions inside but they are
designed for sparse matrices. 

/benoit

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:26:20 -0700, joe wrote
> We have other math libraries, you may want to look at them.  
> There's intern/moto and source/blender/blenlib/BLI_arithb.h, 
> there's also the math stuff the various simulation code uses, 
> such as the superlu solver uv unwrapping uses, the laplacian 
> solver bone heat uses (does that use superlu too? I'm too 
> tired to remember) etc.
> 
> Joe
> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Benoit Bolsee 
> <benoit.bolsee at online.be> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The new IK algorithms developed at the KUL use the uBLAS template 
> > library from boost for matrix definition and operation. In order to 
> > minimize code change when porting to Blender, I am asking if it
would 
> > be acceptable to add that library in blender/extern.
> >
> > It is a template library, so it will not increase the size of the 
> > executable more than necessary. It allows high level abstraction and

> > yet it is almost as fast as an add-hoc C implementation because it 
> > uses the advanced technique of template expressions. The drawback is

> > that it requires a modern C compiler: gcc 3.2.3 and above, MSVC 7.1 
> > and above, ICC 8.0 and above (older compiler are supported with an 
> > earlier version of the library). I guess this is not a limiting 
> > factor? In terms of number of files, I extracted a subset of boost 
> > that contains all the necessary files to compile uBLAS: 10Mb in 1650

> > files.
> >
> > The alternative is to implement add-hoc C functions or reuse the TNT

> > template library that is used by IK_Solver 
> > (intern/iksolver/intern/TNT). This library is much smaller and
provide 
> > similar functionality but it is not as fast.
> >
> > For the interested ones, I've started a wiki on the IK project: 
> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/GameEngineDev/RobotIKSolver
> >
> > /benoit