[Gridflow-dev] geometry, cross products, matrix inversions...

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Le 2011-11-19 à 18:20:00, Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
> Le 2011-11-19 à 16:41:00, Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
>> I just added examples/cross_product.pd in the svn :
>>  http://gridflow.ca/svn/trunk/examples/cross_product.pd
> I just added a 2nd solution to the cross product problem by using [#store] 
> [#fold *] [#fold +].
> I might add a 3rd solution later.

I added a 3rd solution based on four [#convolve] and that supports doing 
many cross-products at once.

I'm working on the 4th solution, which will be as an external, but not as 
a class.

A vecop is like a numop, and both things are plugins usable inside of [#], 
[#draw_polygon], etc. ; however, some classes only support numops and not 
vecops. That's an easier and more flexible way to support simple math 
operations. For this, you edit gridflow/src/numop2.cxx (or numop1.cxx if 
you don't use right inlet) and you edit your formula using DECL_VOP and 
DEF_OP.

The difference between numops and vecops is that the latter have to do 
with several elements at once. This enforces a certain size of 
last-dimension on all inputs and outputs, whereas numops don't enforce any 
dimensions.

Currently, the vecops only work on pieces of size 2, which means a grid 
could be of size (a,b,...,2), that is, at least 1 dimension, and the last 
dimension has 2 indices.

The upcoming vecops would introduce working on pieces of size 3. I don't 
have to remove any limitation, it's just that I have not introduced any 
such vecops yet.

Are there any other operators that take two packs of 3 inputs and produce 
3 outputs, that anyone (on this mailing-list) might want ?

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