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.

Jun 05 2019 New Application implementation for Emscripten

If you build your Mag­num apps for the web, you can now make use of a new fea­ture-packed, smal­ler and more power-ef­fi­cient ap­plic­a­tion im­ple­ment­a­tion. It is us­ing the Em­scripten HTM­L5 APIs dir­ectly in­stead of go­ing through com­pat­ib­il­ity lay­ers.

Mar 11 2019 Teaching VR with Magnum

Last year, Mag­num was used to in­tro­duce stu­dents to vir­tu­al real­ity pro­gram­ming at the Lud­wig-Max­imili­ans-Uni­versität München — power­ing a CAVE-like en­vir­on­ment, a room-scale five-sided pro­jec­tion in­stall­a­tion.

Feb 28 2019 How Magnum does GFX API enum mapping

En­gines sup­port­ing more than one graph­ics backend very of­ten need to trans­late vari­ous enum val­ues — pixel formats, prim­it­ive types etc. — from a gen­er­ic API-ag­nost­ic value to the one used by a par­tic­u­lar im­ple­ment­a­tion, in the fast­est-pos­sible and most ro­bust way.

Feb 05 2019 Magnum 2019.01 released

The new ver­sion puts a fo­cus on us­ab­il­ity with tweak­able con­stants for live cod­ing, Dear ImGui in­teg­ra­tion, new pack­ages, Gradle-less An­droid de­vel­op­ment, com­pile time spee­dup and oth­er gen­er­al pol­ish­ing.

May 14 2018 Simple and efficient Vulkan loading with flextGL

Play­ing with Vulkan but don’t want to in­clude thou­sands lines of vari­ous head­ers just to call a few func­tions? Flex­t­GL just learned Vulkan sup­port and it’s here to speed up your turn­around times.