nfoTools
D230501: VCrayMathStudio: raymath Exploration Devkit
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1. Synopsis
VCrayMathStudio is a suite of examples, tutorial explanations, and a variety of demonstration programs for celebrating the carefully-crafted raymath.h portion of Ramon Santamaria’s raylib library for constructing graphical software.
The objective is to be instructive and to illuminate the careful crafting of
raymath.h and the ways to make use of it as part of impressive computer
graphics applications.
VCrayMathStudio uses VCrayApp for compilation and demonstration of exploratory programs; some operated from the command line and others performed as raylib graphical applications. The Microsoft VC/C++ compiler and Visual Studio Build Tools are used throughout. The assumed platform is an x64 Windows desktop PC. These specific selections provide for consistent, clear-cut results.
Using these studies for explorations of variations on other platforms is invited. Accounting for platform and compiling variations is out of scope for VCrayMathStudio.
2. Prerequisites and Dependencies
NOTE: Current materials are now at the alpha level. There is incomplete material. This will change with progressive improvements until a beta level is feasible. The beta level will have expanded coverage suitable for novice developers and those who are curious about how mathematics and numerical analysis are important in computer graphics.
Although the narratives and examples are intended to be informative on their own, inspection of the illustrative programs and duplicating them for individual purposes will require successful use of VCrayApp.
3. Available Materials
| ID | Started | Status | Topic |
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| (none) | (not yet) | placeholder | something |
4. Development
Development within the GitHub orcmid/nfoTools project is at the devKits/WinDev/VCrayMathStudio on the main branch.
4.1 Principles
- Operation with freely-available and free-to-use development tools.
- Safe for novice developers and others keen to explore the numerical and mathematical techniques applicable in the programming of computer graphics
- Simple standalone creation and use of illustrative materials demonstrated in mini-projects worked out using native Windows programs.
- Fostering understanding and application of raymath functions in creation of raylib-based computer graphics.
4.2 Plan
- Use a spiraling development for gathering together related functions and covering them, lower-level functions first. Populate progressively.
- Construct a topic-based catalog of the raymath functions, organized around the grouping of capabilities and their application in numerical work supporting computer graphics.
- Construct an alphabetical index of the functions and where there are applied as demonstrations and explanations are introduced.
- Update continuously, building out the coverage and responding to feedback.
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