[Haskell-cafe] Lnear algebra library for game programming.

[Graham Klyne]

At 22:52 07/11/04 +0300, Serguey Zefirov wrote:
>So the question is: what other people do in situation like this and is there
>any paper(s) on linear algebra library design?

This response has absolutely nothing to do with Haskell, and not really 
anything to do with library design...

Several years ago, when programming a system for 3D analysis from 2D camera 
data (a form of "terrestrial photogrammetry), I found this to be a most 
helpful reference work:

   Handbook for Automatic Computation, Volume II - Linear Algebra
   J.H. Wilkinson, C Reinsch
   Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-05414-6, 1971 (!)

It addresses a number of tricky computational topics in Linear Algebra, 
with what I found to be an excellent balance of theoretical background and 
practical engineering concerns.  I'm not a student of numerical techniques, 
so I don't know whether this is now somewhat dated;  indeed, I've no idea 
if it's still available, though I'd expect any decent technical library to 
have a (maybe dusty) copy somewhere.

#g


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