Aug 02 2022 Convenient CPU feature detection and dispatch

A new Mag­num fea­ture provides ef­fi­cient com­pile-time and runtime CPU de­tec­tion and dis­patch on x86, ARM and WebAssembly. The core idea be­hind al­lows adding new vari­ants without hav­ing to write any dis­patch­ing code.

Jun 15 2022 Zero-waste single-pass packing of power-of-two textures

Rect­angle pack­ing doesn’t ac­tu­ally have to be a NP-hard prob­lem if we don’t need to solve the most gen­er­al case. In this post I present a simple yet op­tim­al al­gorithm for pack­ing power-of-two tex­tures in­to a tex­ture ar­ray.

Dec 21 2020 A Decade of Magnum

On 19th Decem­ber 2010, Mag­num saw its first com­mit. A bunch more com­mits happened since then and I learned some things along the way.

Jul 02 2020 Magnum 2020.06 released

Re­designed geo­metry pipeline to­geth­er with massive ad­di­tions to im­port­er plu­gins, new de­bug­ging, visu­al­iz­a­tion and pro­fil­ing tools, new ex­amples in­clud­ing flu­id sim­u­la­tion and raytra­cing, in­stan­cing in built­in shaders and a gal­lery of cool pro­jects to get in­spired from.

May 27 2020 New geometry pipeline in Magnum

Flex­ible and ef­fi­cient mesh rep­res­ent­a­tion, cus­tom at­trib­utes, new data types and a ton of new pro­cessing, visu­al­iz­a­tion and ana­lyz­ing tools. GPU-friendly geo­metry stor­age as it should be in the 21st cen­tury.

Oct 30 2019 Magnum 2019.10 released

The new re­lease brings Py­thon bind­ings, Basis Uni­ver­sal tex­ture com­pres­sion, im­proved STL in­ter­op­er­ab­il­ity, bet­ter Uni­code ex­per­i­ence for Win­dows users, a more ef­fi­cient Em­scripten ap­plic­a­tion im­ple­ment­a­tion, single-head­er lib­rar­ies, new OpenGL driver work­arounds and much more.

Sep 17 2019 Introducing Magnum Python Bindings

Dur­ing the past four months, Mag­num began its ad­ven­ture in­to the Py­thon world. Not just with some auto­gen­er­ated bind­ings and not just with some auto­gen­er­ated Sphinx docs — that simply wouldn’t be Mag­num enough. Brace yourselves, this art­icle will show you everything.

Jul 29 2019 Using DART to control a robotic manipulator

A new ex­ample show­cases cap­ab­il­it­ies of the DART in­teg­ra­tion. Let’s dive in­to ro­bot­ics, ex­plain what DART is able to do and how it com­pares to Bul­let.

Jul 08 2019 Being productive with your tools

Mag­num is de­veloped with a “Zen Garden” philo­sophy in mind, fo­cus­ing on pro­ductiv­ity, pre­dict­ab­il­ity and ease of use. Let’s see how that can ex­tend bey­ond just the lib­rary it­self — in­to your daily work­flow.

Apr 30 2019 Multi-dimensional strided array views in Magnum

Mag­num re­cently gained a new data struc­ture us­able for easy data de­scrip­tion, trans­form­a­tion and in­spec­tion, open­ing lots of new pos­sib­il­it­ies for more ef­fi­cient work­flows with pixel, ver­tex and an­im­a­tion data.