Eigen, a shared linear algebra library for KDE apps

Inge Wallin inge at lysator.liu.se
Thu Jul 27 20:08:03 BST 2006


On Thursday 27 July 2006 20.47, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 27. Juli 2006 19:47 schrieb Arnold Krille:
> > Am Donnerstag, 27. Juli 2006 17:38 schrieb Casper Boemann:
> > > The idea of the library is to create the interface we want and then
> > > copy actual code from the tons of math libs out there. Basically all we
> > > want is a Vector and a Matrix class and the usaual +, -, * operations
> > > plus dot product, crossed product, and a way to construct orthogonal
> > > vectors and bases.
> >
> > Be sure to also have function to compute eigenvalues!
>
> Ingwa actually just came up with the idea to have "eigen" as a namespace /
> prefix. Doesn't "eigenVector" sound really intuitive and brilliant for our
> most basic vector implementation ;-) ?

I did <b><font size=99>NOT</font></b> come up with the idea of eigen as a 
prefix.  :-)

As a namespace, it should be ok, since eigen::Vector is a bit more difficult 
to get wrong.

	-Inge

> Torsten
>
> > Sorry for the lame joke, couldn't resist...
> >
> > Arnold

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