HPX VS assimp

https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx Modern C++ concepts incorporated in a threading library. Lots of useful techniques used in there and we are trying to keep our code base very tidy. Feel free to chime in our libera channel #ste||ar if you have any questions.

https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx Welcoming community + we have been part of GSoC for 4-5 years now so feel free to apply there when it opens ;)

You definitely do not want to learn Boost, trust me. The cudatoolkit is fine, HPX is great, so are Dask, and Ray. I do not recommend MPI unless those computers you have use InfiniBand.

I found this interesting library that might fit your goal.

I personally like the ideas in Parallelism v2 TS, which is available in for libstdc++ 11 onwards. The reference implementation is a library named Vc (afaik Vc is the most popular SIMD library for C++), and this has also been implemented in recent versions of HPX.

I am aware of DAGs of task based threading library like Taskflow and HPX however the benefit they have is not obvious to me, as the following sequential section depends on the parallel part being completed fully. If you want to suggest elaboration on the benefits of this approach would be welcome.

Github: https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx

We're working on something similar, but based on sender/receiver in HPX (a lightweight threading runtime) and DLA-Future (distributed linear algebra currently based on (HPX) futures; based on sender/receiver in the future). With senders-as-awaitables this would also get you coroutine support for asynchronous MPI calls for free. We don't have that yet, but it's planned. In the meantime libunifex should be able to fill in the gaps.

If you use something like libassimp https://github.com/assimp/assimp it will allow you to import these and access the data to generate your Vertex Array Objects then render to a frame buffer object.

If you just want to load other data in a relatively simple fashion, assimp https://www.assimp.org supports loading a bunch of different formats and is pretty easy to use.

The emscripten interface for the assimp library. It runs entirely in the browser, and allows you to import 40+ 3D file formats and access the result in JSON or glTF format. This is not a full port of assimp, but an easy to use interface to access it's functionality.

I ran into what sounds like a similar problem a few months ago. It turns out this was an assimp bug: https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/1974

You could give assimp a go (there is a python version) i've used it for 3DS before then you can export to something else. https://github.com/assimp/assimp/blob/master/port/PyAssimp/README.md

I have checked the source code for GLTF for this and it is not handled by Assimp. I created an issue as in their Github.

Assimp is your friend

Have you read the license? It's quite permissive. https://github.com/assimp/assimp/blob/master/LICENSE

There is probably some library more specific to your use case, but you can use assimp to load 3d models in C++.