Jul 06 2017 A new Magnum website coming soon

Wel­come to a pro­to­type of the brand new Mag­num web­site and blog! It still has quite a few rough edges, so please be care­ful, but from now on this is the new of­fi­cial place for blog posts and an­nounce­ments.

May 09 2015 May 2015 updates to Magnum

The Mag­num C++11/C++14 and OpenGL graph­ics en­gine gained OpenGEX format sup­port, a bunch of new im­port­er plu­gins, cross-plat­form ex­ten­sion load­er, trans­form feed­back sup­port and new fea­tures from OpenGL ES 3.1 and OpenGL 4.5, among oth­er things.

Jun 29 2014 June 2014 updates to Magnum

The Mag­num C++11 and OpenGL/OpenGL ES/WebGL graph­ics en­gine gained ex­per­i­ment­al An­droid sup­port, win­dow­less ap­plic­a­tions on OS X and Win­dows, uses SDL2 as the de­fault toolkit, adds new tex­ture and mesh fea­tures, im­proves build sys­tem and got huge doc­u­ment­a­tion re­view.

Mar 13 2014 How to draw a red square in Magnum — in one statement

After read­ing the “How to draw a red square in Qt Quick” blog post show­cas­ing the sim­pli­city of Qt API I thought it would be in­ter­est­ing to try some­thing sim­il­ar in Mag­num for com­par­is­on.

Jan 21 2014 January 2014 updates to Magnum

Since the pre­vi­ous Oc­to­ber snap­shot Mag­num gained Visu­al Stu­dio port, font con­ver­sion util­ity, im­proved text ren­der­ing along with ex­ample ap­plic­a­tion, sup­port for OpenGL de­bug out­put, doc­u­ment­a­tion up­dates, bet­ter test cov­er­age and many more us­ab­il­ity im­prove­ments and fixes.

Dec 11 2013 Reducing C++ compilation time in Magnum: code optimizations

Large C++ pro­jects of­ten suf­fer with very long times for both full and in­cre­ment­al com­pil­a­tion, severely hurt­ing pro­ductiv­ity. The fol­low­ing series will over­view some tech­niques em­ployed in Mag­num to make it­er­a­tion times smal­ler, this art­icle fo­cuses on code-based op­tim­iz­a­tions.

Oct 30 2013 October 2013 updates to Magnum

Sum­mary of changes dur­ing the first two months after pub­lic re­lease. Two new ports, us­ab­il­ity im­prove­ments, OpenGL lim­it quer­ies and in­tro­duc­tion of API de­prec­a­tion.

Oct 09 2013 Static and dynamic polymorphism in Magnum

Thanks to gen­er­ic pro­gram­ming and oth­er fea­tures ex­clus­ive to C++ it is pos­sible to handle poly­morph­ism the most ef­fect­ive way for each use case. As a res­ult, vir­tu­al calls are in Mag­num used very spar­ingly.

Sep 13 2013 C++11 features in Magnum: Simplifying daily workflow

While the pre­vi­ous part was fo­cused on C++11 fea­tures im­prov­ing per­form­ance, here I will de­scribe fea­tures which are used just to sim­pli­fy your life by writ­ing more con­cise code with less mis­takes.

Sep 08 2013 C++11 features in Magnum: Better memory management

Re­gard­less to what lan­guage you use, you al­ways need to think about memory man­age­ment. Garbage col­lect­ors might give you a sense that it’s done auto­ma­gic­ally, but to get more per­form­ance you need to have con­trol over heap us­age in code run­ning at 60 FPS. C++11 helps to avoid many heap al­loc­a­tions without sac­ri­fi­cing us­ab­il­ity.