Hi Marcus,
Marcus Lindblom wrote:
>
> The bad things:
> - The current 1.8 (with the patch) will probably break a lot of code,
> and it's not pleasant to fix (easy, yes, but it requires adding a lot of
> conversions randomly)
Hm, random doesn't sound very good and easy to explain...
> The main causes for problems in my code is due to:
> - The difference in interface between points and vectors
> (adding/subbing/scaling, etc doesn't just "work")
> - TransformationMatrix doesn't provide getters that return Vec3f/Pnt3f
> to get basis vector or translation.
>
> I belive it is similar for other users.
>
> We could fix this in a few ways:
> 1. reverting the patch
> 2. making the constructors non-explicit
> 3. adding assignment operators similar to constructors and setValue
> (similar to 2, but without temporary objects)
> 4. Unify Vec/Pnt (& Color) into one class
>
> Does anyone feel strongly about this?
> * If not, just go for Option 2, get 1.8 out and focus fully on 2.0)
> * Íf so, how about option 3 for 1.8? (IMHO, that would make the release
> stable enough, if we also could make Pnt4f default to 1 for the last
> element)
I opted for 2) for now. Unless anybody has serious objections I'd leave it like
that.
> Option 4 would be my preferred option in the long run, i.e. 2.0. I think
> that's sort-of-planned anyway.
I haven't looked at GMTL in that respect. How do you implement
Vecs/Points/Colors in there? Are they symmetric?
Dirk
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