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.

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.

Feb 18 2019 Array view implementations in Magnum

Sim­il­arly to the point­er and ref­er­ence wrap­pers de­scribed in the last art­icle, Mag­num’s ar­ray views re­cently re­ceived STL com­pat­ib­il­ity as well. Let’s take that as an op­por­tun­ity to com­pare them with the stand­ard im­ple­ment­a­tion in std::span.

Oct 24 2018 Magnum 2018.10 released — with animation and Vulkan interop

Among oth­er high­lights is a new glTF play­er app, HiDPI sup­port, spline in­ter­pol­a­tion, a Box2D ex­ample and pro­ductiv­ity im­prove­ments all across the board.

May 02 2018 Magnum 2018.04 released — with custom renderer support

The new re­lease brings more flex­ib­il­ity to as­set man­age­ment and ren­der­ing ab­strac­tions, im­proves plu­gin hand­ling and show­cases Leap Mo­tion in­teg­ra­tion.

Mar 27 2018 Plugin usability improvements

I made a brief de­tour on the way to Vulkan sup­port and equipped Mag­num with fea­tures that make plu­gin work­flow nicer and open up new pos­sib­il­it­ies.

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.