erincatto/box3d
Box3D is a 3D physics engine for games
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Where it stands
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No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 120 days ago, with 2 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a portable C17 3D physics engine optimized for games with robust collision detection and physics simulation features.
- Delivers high performance through data-oriented design, multithreading, SIMD optimizations, and cross-platform determinism.
- Use for integrating realistic rigid body physics and collision handling in cross-platform 3D game development projects.
- Use for building simulation tools requiring continuous collision detection and complex joint constraints in C environments.
- Use for creating physics-based interactive demos or educational software leveraging its extensive sample applications and GUI.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
- Owned by an individual account with only 2 contributors on GitHub; plan for bus-factor risk.
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From the README
Box3D is a 3D physics engine for games.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+994 stars over 90 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +22 on Aug 1.
Forks
373+91
Open issues
24+15
Compared with peers in Developer Tools
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
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| herdrdev/herdr | 48.3K | +1.7K | 59 | 22 days ago |
| The-PR-Agent/pr-agent | 15.1K | +1.5K | 64 | 11 days ago |
| erincatto/box3d | 6.7K | — | 27 | 120 days ago |
| Category median | 116.8K | +5.1K | 60 | — |
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