"For beyond the veil of our limited understanding there lies an arcane ballet of unseen dimensions."

The EldritchCodex is a learning project from RenanBomtempo that explores the engineering, architecture and mathematics behind the development of software for computer graphics and physics simulations for both entertainment and scientific applications.

The project's goal is to develop several modular tools that can all integrate with a central core framework, following a Host-Plugin architecture.

The core is Nodens, and it handles:

• application entry-point and interactive loop,
• pub/sub event system,
• multi-threaded job system,
• cross-platflorm window and input management (GLFW),
• logging (spdlog),
• debug GUI (ImGUI).

The currently planned plugins are:

• Nyar: a Vulkan-based real-time renderer.
• Azath: a multi-physics engine.
• Tindalos: an offline ray-tracer.

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