Tacit

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Introduction

This repo contains several interconnected projects based around taking implicit equations and generating meshes that approximate their solution.

This project was initially developed as several indipendent repos, but I the overhead was high, and I'm migrated to a new github account, so I took the opportunity to move all the projects into one repo.

For now there are two primary ways to use the software. The implicit-cli tool can interactivley generate geometry files that are viewable via the asap plotter.

I am also working on a web application in the web-client crate.

Design Decisions

WebGl 1

Until Webkit supports webGL 2, I will not move towards supporting it. (Unless it becomes it becomes an overwhelming technical limitation).

For Developers

Dependencies

Only the web-client crate has special dependencies at the moment. We use wasm-bindgen, version 0.2.33 for now. I would suggest the following.

./build.sh

This will ensure you have the right version installed. The resulting target/web directory will be ready to deploy. I would like to figure out how to setup a virtual env kind of setup for rust / cargo but have not done so yet.

In order to build the release build of the the web-client you will need to have installed the wasm-opt tool from the binaryen toolchain.

Formatting

I use the defaults for rustfmt. The one exception I've made so far is when declaring all elements in a matrix. In that case, preficing the delcaration with #[cfg_attr(rustfmt, rustfmt_skip)] is fine. In order to format all the code in the workspace you can run the following command.

cargo fmt --all

Testing

In order to run all tests in the works space please the following command.

cargo test --all

The travis-ci job is currently configured to test the following:

• Build and test the workspace on stable, beta, and nightly rust toolchains.
• cargo fmt --all -- --check must be successful on stable rust.
• web-client/build.sh must run succesfully on stable rust.

I would like to add release build testing of the web-client, but have not yet added support for building wasm-opt into the works.