About GMac

About GMac

On this page you can:

  • Learn about the purpose of GMac and its possible uses.
  • Read the main features of GMac for coding with Geometric Algebra, scripting, and prototyping.
  • Understand the requirements of using GMac and where to download it from.
  • Find a short description of GMac’s various components and links to the GMac User Guides.

 

Using GMac

Using GMac

GMac, short for “Geometric Macro“, is a .NET based software system that allows implementing geometric models and algorithms based on Geometric Algebra (GA) in arbitrary target programming languages.

The core part of GMac is the GMacCompiler, a transcompiler or source-to-source translator that accepts code written in a simple high-level domain-specific language (GMacDSL), and can be configured using GMacAPI to output very efficient low-level code in any desired target programming language. The ultimate goal behind creating GMac is to allow Geometric Computing (GC) implementations to be as flexible, organized, and efficient as possible. Although GMac is originally created using C#, it can be configured to generate a set of textual code files in any desired structure using an API that is accessible through any .NET language including C++, C#, VB.NET, F#, and IronPython among others.

The main ideas behind GMac date back to my 2010 Ph.D. dissertation that can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04767GMac is intended to be a sophisticated software system for implementing Geometric Algebra algorithms in an efficient manner to narrow the gap between practical software engineering and GA-based geometric modeling in order to enable GA to gain wider acceptance among software designers, as well as researchers. I strongly believe Geometric Algebra rightly deserves to become the main mathematical language for teaching and representing geometric models in computer science and engineering in the very near future.






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