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box2d ★ 10413 1825 APPLICATION

Box2D is a mature, production-grade 2D rigid-body physics engine written in C17, designed primarily for game development. It provides a comprehensive C API for simulating rigid bodies, shapes (circles, capsules, polygons, chain segments), joints (revolute, prismatic, distance, weld, wheel, motor, etc.), sensors, and continuous collision detection (CCD). The engine is data-oriented, with a focus on determinism, multithreading, and SIMD acceleration (SSE2, AVX2, NEON). It includes a built-in scheduler for parallel constraint solving using graph coloring, and supports large worlds via double-precision coordinates. The architecture is modular: the public API is defined in `include/box2d/` with separate headers for types, math, collision, and the main `box2d.h`. The implementation in `src/` is organized into subsystems: world management, body/shape/joint creation, broad-phase collision (dynamic AABB tree), narrow-phase collision (GJK, SAT, manifold generation), constraint solving (contact solver with SIMD variants), island management, and recording/replay for deterministic debugging. The engine also provides snapshot serialization for save/load. While the core is a library, the repository includes a rich set of sample applications (using GLFW, OpenGL, and ImGui) that demonstrate every feature, a comprehensive unit test suite, and performance benchmarks. The codebase is exceptionally well-crafted, with clean abstractions, extensive validation, and a strong emphasis on correctness and performance. It is actively maintained by the original author (Erin Catto) and the community.

RATING: 9.9/10 MAINT: active DRIFT: low
box3d ★ 0 0 UNKNOWN

RATING: N/A/10 MAINT: unknown DRIFT: unknown
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