[Savannah-register-public] [task #6839] Submission of The Carom Physics Engine

[Tavian Barnes]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?6839>

                 Summary: Submission of The Carom Physics Engine
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: tavianator
            Submitted on: Wednesday 05/02/2007 at 00:08
         Should Start On: Wednesday 05/02/2007 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Saturday 05/12/2007 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=9268> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=9268>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *The Carom Physics Engine*
* System Name:  *carom*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License V2 or later

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==== Description: ====
The Carom Physics Engine is a high-precision physics library, written in C++,
that features a unique approach to collision detection, as well as standard
utilities like rigid body dynamics. It has built-in high-precision numerics
(big integers, and rational numbers), though this will eventually be replaced
with the superior GMP library. It will soon be judged at the CWSF (Canada-Wide
Science Fair) in Truro, after which the source code will be released.

Carom is written mostly in standard C++, but with reliance on assembly and
C99's stdint types; these dependencies will be removed upon migrating to
GMP.

Carom deals with Newtonian mechanics in three-dimensional space, currently
using the Euler algorithm to integrate numerically. Support for fourth-order
Runge-Kutta is being planned. Support for fluid dynamics is also planned, as
well as support for meshes. Speed, however, is the issue that is currently in
need of the most attention; it is hoped that migrating to GMP will solve the
majority of the speed problems.


==== Other Software Required: ====
Eventually, Carom will use GMP for high-precision numerics.






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