Re: 2D vectors

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Lars Ruoff <lars.ruoff@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Roland and all,

i have already a solution on the C(++) side. As i said, it's basically

struct VECTOR {

FLOAT x;
FLOAT y;
};
with some methods around it for utility functions.

Would it be better to expose those functions to Lua or use a Lua-side library?

The Lua scripts would need to get some vectors in tables, then do some calculation with it and return a bunch of other vectors.

And concerning my other initial question, would it feel "right" for a Lua coder to handle a 2D vector as a Lua table with elements "x" and "y"?

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Roland <roland.yonaba@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Lars,

I don't know if you are looking for a solution on the C-side, but I remember
I have some implementations of vector classes in pure Lua. They might not be
the best, but just quick modules I have written as part of some personal
projects.
See vec3.lua
<https://github.com/Yonaba/smallpt-lua/blob/e1e6831394229a6780d5a7c0d428e102e97fcf2f/core/vec3.lua>
(used in Lua port of Smallpt raytracer) and vector.lua
<https://github.com/Yonaba/character-physics-demo/blob/5689eabec224e572c686a0fc0e72360e11ba9a32/vector.lua>
(2d vectors used in a simulation of steering behaviors).
There is also this quite complete and clean module for 2d vectors, which is
part of a larger set of utilities, named HUMP. See hump.vector
<https://github.com/vrld/hump/blob/master/vector.lua> .
And last, lua-vec <https://code.google.com/p/lua-vec/> . I haven't tested
this out, though, but the API looks quite complete.

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As a consumer of this kind of stuff (as opposed to a domain expert):

I'd say it'd feel more natural to have it be { x, y } as opposed to {x = val, y = val}

you can also make a metatable for this so that x and y work, as well but I wouldn't do that. It's fine to represent a tuple as indexed values, as opposed to named pairs.

-Andrew