[vtk-developers] Additional math functionality

[Brad King]

Philippe P. Pebay wrote:
> if we could not split the math tools into a few classes, e.g.,:
> 
> 1. algebra (vector and tensor manipulation and operators over such, 
> combinatorics)
> 2. solvers (including linear solvers)
> 3. vtkPolynomialSystem (that allows symbolic manipulation of 
> polynomials, and systems
> of such -- which of course includes manipulating linear systems)
> 4. and a general vtkMath where we would put useful stuff that cannot be 
> attached to anything else.
[snip]
> Will Schroeder wrote:
>>
>> There has been a request by several VTK developers to move some math 
>> functionality into VTK (mainly polynomial root solvers). We are 
>> talking several thousand lines of code. Of course we could just cram 
>> it into vtkMath, take the ITK approach and include a math library, or 
>> create new math classes, etc. At this point I am looking for opinions.

This kind of support could quickly turn into a whole numerics library. 
I suggest we take the ITK approach of pulling in an existing library 
such as vnl.

-Brad