Important note: this article is outdated! Go to http://zsiciarz.github.io/24daysofrust/ for a recent version of all of 24 days of Rust articles. The blogpost here is kept as it is for historical reasons.

The nalgebra crate provides a wide set of mathematical primitives for linear algebra, computer physics, graphic engines etc. I'm not going to dive deep into the underlying math, there are a lot of tutorials and courses, some of them specifically targeted at the programmers. My goal for today is just a brief showcase of what we can do in Rust with nalgebra.

Important note: this article is outdated! Go to http://zsiciarz.github.io/24daysofrust/ for a recent version of all of 24 days of Rust articles. The blogpost here is kept as it is for historical reasons.

The image crate is a library under development (well, not unlike the rest of the Rust ecosystem before 1.0) to read, manipulate and write images. It is part of the effort to develop an open source game engine in pure Rust - Piston, but of course the image crate can be used on its own.

At the moment image supports reading and writing JPG and PNG images, while a few other formats are read-only (GIF, TIFF, WEBP).