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Updated 21 August 2006
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Software Development Links
Misc
- SourceForge - the centre of the open source software development universe
- Flipcode.com - excellent site for articles, code snippets and other development resources
- Gamasutra - ditto
- Graphics Gems - all the source code from the books online
- Red3D Research Papers - Some good articles on crowd AI, flocking, collision detection, etc
- CVS Dude - CVS/Subversion hosting site, 2mb free, reasonably cheap upgrades
- Freepository.com - free CVS hosting, very generous limits
Tools
- Subversion - source code revision control system, much improved over CVS
- Python - great scripting language with powerful library. Easily embedded as a scripting engine into C++ apps using a boost.org library. Good online book here - Dive Into Python, though the tutorial included in the online docs is excellent too
- Doxygen - nice source code documentation generator for C++ and other languages
- Valgrind - excellent open source memory debugger. Finds all memory allocation/leak/access errors, even without debug info built into your app
- JEdit - java based programmers editor, which runs well across windows, linux and OSX, and had loads of great extensions
- Araxis Merge - best graphical merge tool for Windows that I've seen
- XXDiff - and a free one for Unix
- SCons - an improved 'make' utility, including self-diagnosing dependencies, MD5 checksums instead of datestamps, Python based scripts and more
- Perceptual Image Diff - tool for comparing images by visual metrics, rather than by data values. Great for regression testing of graphics apps
Libraries
- boost.org - a collection of excellent C++ libraries, by many of the people on the C++ standards Comittee
- wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) - an excellent and free cross-platform and rapid development development library.
- QT - commercial cross-platform development library
- SGI's STL - great online docs for STL, even if you use a different implementation
- STL Port - STL library designed for cross-platform development
- libtiff - great library for handling TIFF image input/output
- OpenEXR - ILM's free High Dynamic Range Image format and library. Includes some great math (e.g. quaternions) and image source code
- zlib - free compression library, used in gzip
- HDF5 - very impressive format and libraries for reading/writing large and complex data sets - perfect for particle/fur/geometry or anything else you need to deal with in 3D and scientific disciplines. Lots of nifty features.
- Gnu Scientific Library (GSL) - library for heavy scientific/numerical/math stuff, like FFTs, least-squares fitting, polynomials, linear algebra, root finding, etc.
- Solid Modelling Solutions - these sell some polygon, subdiv and NURBS libraries that people have said good things about, but I haven't used them myself
- SQLite - lightweight embedded SQL database engine, so you can have database stuff within your apps without a full SQL server, nifty
- ODE - Open Dynamics Engine. A great Open Source physics/dynamics/collisions library, already used in a wide range of free and commercial apps (including XSI)
- KLT Feature Tracker - free library for finding optimal 2D tracking points in an image
- Open CV - open source computer vision library from Intel, lots of interesting stuff in there, e.g. motion analysis, object tracking, etc.
Math
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