diff --git a/content/posts/newsletter-013/index.md b/content/posts/newsletter-013/index.md index de3f9a3e6..cbda81bd0 100644 --- a/content/posts/newsletter-013/index.md +++ b/content/posts/newsletter-013/index.md @@ -173,6 +173,38 @@ organized with one branch for each subsection. ## Library & Tooling Updates +### [Rapier: 2D and 3D Physics Engines Focused on Performance][rapier-august] + +[![Rapier logo](rapier-logo.svg)][Rapier] + +[Rapier] is a new set of 2D and 3D physics engines written 100% in Rust. +It is 5 to 10 times faster than [nphysics], close to the performances of the +CPU version of PhysX, and often slightly faster than Box2D. + +[For its first release][rapier-august] Rapier includes: + +- rigid-body dynamics; +- colliders and sensors; +- joint constraints; +- optional serialization of the physics state; +- optional cross-platform determinism on IEEE-754 compliant targets; +- optional explicit SIMD and parallelism. +- JavaScript bindings with official NPM packages. + +This new physics engine is developed by the recently created [Dimforge] +single-member Open-Source company [replacing][dimforge-replace] the former +Rustsim organization created on GitHub by [@sebcrozet]. + +_Discussions: +[/r/rust](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/igkul2/announcing_rapier_2d_and_3d_physics_engines/)_ + +[Rapier]: https://rapier.rs +[rapier-august]: https://www.dimforge.com/blog/2020/08/25/announcing-the-rapier-physics-engine +[dimforge-replace]: https://www.dimforge.com/blog/2020/08/18/rustsim-becomes-dimforge +[Dimforge]: https://dimforge.com +[@sebcrozet]: https://github.com/sebcrozet/ +[nphysics]: https://nphysics.org + ### [Egui] [Egui] is a highly portable immediate mode GUI library in pure Rust. diff --git a/content/posts/newsletter-013/rapier-logo.svg b/content/posts/newsletter-013/rapier-logo.svg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..363266688 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/newsletter-013/rapier-logo.svg @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + \ No newline at end of file