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BRL-CAD has a long history of pithy attempts at constraint solving. There is a relatively simple forward-kinematic solver that was implemented as a GED command (see 'joint' command). It utilizes 'grip' objects and outboard text files that describe constraint relationships. It remained broken and unused for about 20 years until it was fixed in 2014. It surprisingly works, and seems to work well solving linear relationships (3D geometric constraints). There is a relatively new system that utilizes 'joint' objects, currently creating a 6DoF relationship between objects but with the intention of expanding it into supporting other (more constrained) joint types like hinges, pivots, saddles, etc. This system is integrated into MGED/Archer and is interactively editable with mouse controls. The scope of libpc is to serve as a wrapper over a geometric constraint evaluation system with the likely expectation that one or more 3rd-party solver will be incorporated to solve parametric constraints and joint articulation. The intention and target purpose is for librt to rely on this library for data types and evaluation. GECODE http://www.gecode.org mit GLOP https://developers.google.com/optimization apache2