ndmitchell:
Hi
I'm looking for interesting project to work on during Google Summer of Code. So I found [1]"A data parallel physics engine" ticket and got excited about it. I'd like to know interested mentors and community opinion about the complexity of such project.
I don't think there are a great deal of Haskell users who _really_ need a physics engine right now. However, there seem to be a massive number who are working with matrices. I am informed that a lot of physics is just matrix stuff underneath (but don't know anything myself).
Perhaps a nice direction to take this project would be to build an NDP matrix library first, then use that library to build a physics engine on top of it. A physics engine would certainly be very cool, and a parallel matrix library would certainly be very much in demand.
I'd chime in here -- actually getting arrays and parallel arrays with list-like interfaces, and then onto matrices, will impact a lot of people's work, in a good way.