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The OpenGL 4.6 Rendering Kernel in Ada 2012
https://github.com/onox/orka

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Orka is an OpenGL 4.6 rendering kernel written in Ada 2012. It provides

the building blocks like a frame graph to render 3D graphics or do general-purpose

computing on the GPU, and to use input devices like gamepads.



- **Object-oriented rendering API**. Renderer objects like shader programs,

framebuffers, buffers, and textures can be used via an

object-oriented API. Objects are automatically created and destroyed by using

controlled types. Various [AZDO][url-azdo] techniques can be used to allow

multithreaded buffer updates and batched draw calls for high performance rendering.



- **Frame graph**. Create a graph with render passes and textures to easily

display a texture or depth buffer on the screen.



- **Debug rendering and logging**. Various packages exist that can be used

to draw bounding boxes, coordinate axes, lines, and spheres for debugging.

Messages from the rendering API or other parts of your application can be

logged to the terminal or files.



- **Algorithms and effects**. Compute the prefix sum or Fast Fourier Transform

using compute shaders, or apply a blurring effect to a texture.



- **Atmosphere and terrain**. Render a realistic atmosphere or adaptive

tessellated terrain.



- **Windows and input devices**. Use the built-in [window toolkit][url-awt]

to manage input devices like the pointer, keyboard, and gamepads, and windows

that can display 3D graphics.

It has a similar purpose as GLFW and SDL, but is fully written in Ada.



- **Gamepads**. Apply mappings from

[SDL gamecontroller database][url-sdl-gamecontroller-db],

play force-feedback effects,

get the estimated orientation and angular velocity of the motion sensor,

get the capacity and charging state of the battery,

change the color of the LED,

and detect chords (groups of buttons), button sequences,

and rapid button tapping.



- **Job graph processing system**. A job graph processing system provides

flexible multitasking by allowing work to be split into multiple small jobs

which are then processed by any available task from a task pool. Jobs can be

processed in parallel as well as sequentially.



- **Asynchronous resource loading**. Load resources like [KTX][url-ktx] textures

and [glTF][url-gltf] models asynchronously using the job graph

processing system. Resources can be loaded from directories and archive files.



- **Transforms**. Apply common transformations to vectors, quaternions, and

matrices using x86 SIMD instructions.



- **Tensors and numerics**. Perform element-wise operations, reductions

using arbitrary expressions, or matrix operations on tensors using SIMD

instructions on the CPU or compute shaders on the GPU.

Generate tensors with some statistical distribution,

or use Runge-Kutta 4th order numerical integrators or sigma-point Kalman filters.



- **Surfaceless rendering**. Create a surfaceless rendering context without

any dependency on a windowing system for using compute shaders on a server.



Additionally, Orka provides several bindings:



- **x86 SIMD extensions**

Bindings for various x86 SIMD extensions, including SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3,

SSE4.1, AVX, AVX2, FMA, and F16C, and an implementation of the

[xoshiro][url-xoshiro] pseudo-random number generator using SSE2 or

AVX2 intrinsics.



- **OpenGL 4.6**. Thick bindings are provided for the modern parts

of OpenGL 4.6. There are no bindings for fixed function functionality

that is deprecated or functions that have been superseded by newer extensions.



- **EGL**. Thick bindings for EGL are provided to create a surfaceless

context for rendering without the presence of a windowing system.



## Documentation



The documentation can be viewed [on the website][url-docs].



## Learning Ada



Ada is an imperative and object-oriented programming language focused

on correctness, readability, and good [software engineering practices][url-swe-practices]

for large scale systems and safety-critical and embedded real-time systems.



It has a strong static type system which allows you to create your own

types that reflect the problem domain, with optional low-level control

of your data. Packages provide modularity and information hiding. High-level

concurrency primitives like protected objects allow safe communication

between tasks and design-by-contract is supported through type invariants,

predicates, and pre- and postconditions.



If you would like to learn Ada, then here are a few resources to get started:



- [Introduction to Ada][url-learn-act] (An interactive tutorial in your browser)



- [Ada Programming on Wikibooks][url-wikibooks]



- [(Online) books on Awesome Ada][url-awesome]



## Contributing



If you would like to fix a bug, add a feature, improve the documentation or

have suggestions or advice about the architecture, APIs, or performance,

then do not hesitate to open a new [issue][url-issue].



See the [contributing guidelines][url-contributing] for more information.



## License



Most Orka crates are distributed under the terms of the [Apache License 2.0][url-apache]

except for a few separate Alire crates:



- Crate [orka_plugin_atmosphere][url-crate-atmosphere] is licensed under

the [Apache License 2.0][url-apache] AND [BSD 3-Clause license][url-bsd-3].



- Crate [orka_plugin_terrain][url-crate-terrain] is licensed under

the [Apache License 2.0][url-apache] AND [MIT license][url-mit].



  [url-apache]: https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0

  [url-awt]: https://github.com/onox/orka/tree/master/awt

  [url-bsd-3]: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

  [url-crate-atmosphere]: https://github.com/onox/orka/tree/master/orka_plugin_atmosphere

  [url-crate-terrain]: https://github.com/onox/orka/tree/master/orka_plugin_terrain

  [url-mit]: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

  [url-awesome]: https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada#online-books

  [url-azdo]: https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/developers/library/2014-gdc/Khronos-OpenGL-Efficiency-GDC-Mar14.pdf

  [url-contributing]: /CONTRIBUTING.md

  [url-docs]: https://orka-engine.netlify.com/

  [url-gltf]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/blob/master/specification/2.0/README.md

  [url-issue]: https://github.com/onox/orka/issues

  [url-ktx]: https://www.khronos.org/opengles/sdk/tools/KTX/file_format_spec/

  [url-learn-act]: https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/index.html

  [url-sdl-gamecontroller-db]: https://github.com/gabomdq/SDL_GameControllerDB

  [url-swe-practices]: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming#Programming_in_the_large

  [url-wikibooks]: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming

  [url-xoshiro]: https://prng.di.unimi.it/