I work in the geospatial industry and have worked on plenty of large projects that have their own internal geometry libraries. Some good, some bad, most with interesting historical choices. I recently joined a new project that hasn't yet really defined its vocabulary types yet, and I'm finding that extremely inconvenient, so I'm looking around at what is common
The kinds of things I'm looking for are:
`Vector<typename T, size_t Dimension>`: Basically a `std::array<T,Dimension>` with a vector-like API
Point: A wrapper around a Vector with point semantics`Size`: A wrapper around a `Vector` with size semantics
Range: A basic min/max interval`AxisAlignedBox`: A set of `Range`s in N dimensions
RotatedBox: A AxisAlignedBox with a basis Vector`Polyline`: A `std::vector<Point>` assumed to be open
Polygon: A std::vector<Point> assumed to be closed`Matrix`: An NxM matrix
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I know there are plenty of vector/matrix/linear algebra libraries out there, often focused on flexibilty and raw computational performance. I'm more interested in nice vocabulary types that implement proper semantics via convenient methods and operators.
It seems these things are often provided by game engines, but pulling in an entire game engine for a non-gaming project feels silly.
So if you were starting a new, greenfield C++ application dealing with 3D geometric data, which existing library, if any, would you reach for?
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