Re: [pygame] 2D Vector Class

[Alex Holkner <aholkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's the head of the thread:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/pygame-users/3231069

and here are those benchmarks I was talking about:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/pygame-users/3233961

Alex.

On 17/05/2007, at 10:06 AM, René Dudfield wrote:

> Have you got a link to that thread?  or do you remember the subject?
>
> On 5/17/07, Alex Holkner <aholkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So, I've been working on a simple physics system, and have gotten  
> > to the
> > point where passing around a tuple just isn't cutting it. Can anybody
> > suggest a good 2D vector implementation?This thread came up  
> > sometime last
> > year, and several implementations were put forward.
> >
> > If you're happy to put all of your vectors into a single numpy/ 
> > numeric
> > array, that is the fastest approach.
> >
> > CGKit (http://cgkit.sourceforge.net/) is a C extension which is  
> > the fastest
> > vector-is-an-object implementation.  Unless things have changed  
> > recently
> > though, this library is a nightmare to compile and install.
> >
> > For pure Python, the fastest implementation is my euclid module:
> > http://partiallydisassembled.net/euclid.html (some
> > comparison results were posted in the previous thread).
> >
> > Cheers
> > Alex.