A branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space.
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What is a good way to determine if a vector is between two other vectors?
I could operate with the angles, but I do not have the angles calculated yet (and would like to avoid having to do that). It would be possible to calculate and cache the local-coordinate-frame angles, ...
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Vertices shaking with large camera position values
Basicly when i set the position of my camera (my character in game) to a high value, the geometries seems to be shaking, the higher the position value, the more they shake. On low position values you ...
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“Walking” along a rotating survace in LimeJS
I'm trying to have a character walk along a plank (a long, thin rectangle) that works like a seesaw, being rotated around a central point by box2d physics (falling objects). I want the left and right ...
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Geometry System of Populous: The Beginning
I want to to develop a game like Populous: The Beginning with my friend. But we could not find out what type of geometry they have used for the world.
We know that
- all tiles have the same size
- ...
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Is the Manhattan distance monotonic when used as heuristic function?
I have a square-based map. Only horizontal and vertical movement is allowed (no diagonals). Movement cost is always 1.
I'm implementing an A* algorithm on that map, using the Manhattan distance as a ...
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Calculating specific coordinate along a path
Let's say I have a path comprised of a sequence of points that are connect by lines and arcs. The entire path has some specific length. Let's call that length 100.
What would be the mechanism to ...
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Collision avoidance (AI)
Now my 3D model has complete AI behaviours, but my model has no collision avoidance while he is moving towards the player! Because of this, he gets stuck in front of 3D blocks sometimes.
I think the ...
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Hexagon collision detection for fast moving objects?
A object has a position and a speed vector. Usually only the position is used to check if two objects collide, this is problematic for very fast moving objects as it can happen that the object moves ...
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Procedural Geometry Generation
I have recently been looking into SceneKit for OS X and noticed that there are several factory methods to create geometric shapes such as:
Box, Capsule, Cone, Cylinder, Plane, Pyramid, Sphere, Torus ...
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enemy View Range , chase player
for 3D:
Q1 : I want to make zone range for each enemy in the game , so that when the player in the view range he will be chased .
Q2 :if I want to make enemy walk a little bit around his position ...
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chasing , zone range
here is an image show what I am gonna to do in my XNA game , I want to check if the player is inside zone range and if yes then attack the player , I tried to do this using checking ray but it's odd ...
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How to calculate collision normal between two AxisAlignedBox's?
I'm writing a physics simulation in Ogre3D and I'm trying to figure out how to calculate the collision normal between two Ogre::AxisAlignedBox's.
I am checking for collisions using the "intersects" ...
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Blender: calculation of elevation and rotation angle from plane
I have a generic plane (any location, any rotation around every axis) with its normal axis passing by the center. Then I have a generic point and I need to find the elevation and the rotation angle ...
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Issues with Sine Wave Generation and Rotation
I'm working on generating objects in sine wave that lets you specify parameters that are start x, end x, start y, and end y position.
Below is the method that I used to generate the debris
void ...
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What kind of projection is ScreenX=X/Z, ScreenY=Y/Z?
I have an existing class which transforms 3D vectors and projects them on a 2D plane (Camera). The code is all written in C without help from an external library.
To project a single vector (X,Y,Z) ...
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A controlled trapezoid transformation with perspective projecton
I'm trying to implement a controlled trapezoid transformation in Adobe Flash's ActionScript using the built-in perspective projection facility. To give you an idea of how the effect looks like:
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Implementing 2D CSG (for collision shapes)?
Are there any simple (or well documented) algorithms for basic CSG operations on 2D polygons?
I'm looking for a way to 'add' a number of overlapping 2D collision shapes. These may be convex or ...
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Wrong faces culled in OpenGL when drawing a rectangular prism
I'm trying to learn opengl. I did some code for building a rectangular prism. I don't want to draw back faces so I used glCullFace(GL_BACK), glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE);. But I keep getting back faces also ...
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Top down 2D camera in relation to keyboard commands
I have a basic 2D camera:
transform =
Matrix.CreateTranslation(-position.X, -position.Y, 0) *
Matrix.CreateRotationZ(-rotation) *
Matrix.CreateScale(new Vector3(zoom, zoom, 1)) *
...
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DirectX How to Gernerate Vertices for Diamond Shape and Render it?
How to generate vertices for 3D Diamond Shape in DirectX?
EDIT:
I am creating an application which receive DIAMETER, CROWN, GIRDLE and PAVILION as parameter and render a model of diamond according to ...
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Generating geometry when using VBO
Currently I am working on a project in which I generate geometry based on the players movement. A glorified very long trail, composed of quads.
I am doing this by storing a STD::Vector, and removing ...
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Geometry problem for area of sight
My player have a line of sight and all objects between the white lines, turns red.
To compute this, the following conditions are met: if the angle between the yellow line and the red line are small ...
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Decomposing a concave mesh into a set of convex meshes
I'd like to be able to decompose a concave mesh into a set of convex meshes for 2 reasons:
Transparent rendering
Physics shapes
Is there an algorithm that takes a set of triangles (concave) as ...
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Is there a 3D equivalent of hex tile maps?
Probably the biggest advantage of a hex-based versus square-based map tiling is that the center of each hex has the same distance to all its neighboring hexes. Is there a similar shape that tiles this ...
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Displaying (3D) objects' name above them
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind has a rather interesting way to display each focused objects' name. It's all a bit fuzzy in my memory right now, but the most important part I remember perfectly: the ...
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How to trace contour of shapes with holes?
I am experimenting with the RVO2 library for collision avoidance in a 2D simulation. This library supports specifying arbitrary obstacles as a list of vertices. The obstacles must be full shapes, i.e. ...
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How do I calculate distance from a point to a rectangle?
I have a 2D rectangle with x, y position, height and width, and a randomly positioned point nearby.
Is there a way to check if this point might collide with the rectangle if it is closer than a ...
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Moving an object toward another object on sphere knowing their quaternions
I have a sphere centered in world origin. On the sphere surface I have two objects and I know their quaternions (rotation around sphere).
Currently my movement works on Vector2 inputs (cannot change ...
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Rotation of Rectangle along Y-axis transformed to parallelogram
After the rotation of a rectangular view along the Y-axis, about its center, transformed into parallelogram, how do I get the rotated parallelogram coordinates?
By Y-axis, I mean perpendicular to the ...
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How do you turn a cube into a sphere?
I'm trying to make a quad sphere based on an article, which shows results like this:
I can generate a cube correctly:
But when I convert all the points according to this formula (from the page ...
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in the shadow of a sphere [duplicate]
(Related, but somewhat different, to my previous question)
How can I determine in a fragment shader if a fragment is in the shadow of a sphere?
That is, if it is occluded by the sphere and is past ...
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Build a Cube/Prism from other varied Cubes/Prisms [closed]
I'm wondering, are there any algorithms or theories in existence (that aren't patented/proprietary/protected) that would take a series of 3d rectangular prisms (or cubes but a cube is a prism) and ...
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How do I render a filled and stroked path using OpenGL?
I want to render a 2-dimensional geometric path consisting of Bézier curves and straight lines. Paths can be concave.
What is the most efficient way to draw this using modern OpenGL? Can I do this ...
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Voronoi regions of a (convex) polygon
I'm looking to add circle-polygon collisions to my Separating Axis Theorem collision detection.
The metanet software tutorial (http://www.metanetsoftware.com/technique/tutorialA.html#section3) on ...
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ray polygon intersection
Hi, I am looking for an elegant way to do ray and polygon intersections in 2d. I don't care about languages.
Now what I'm doing is taking a line that lies on the ray (with a screen length) and ...
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How can I transform a point from world space to object space?
If I have an object space described by transformation matrix that should be applied to object to transform it to world space, what I have to do to transform point (world space) to that object space.
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How to linearly blend between multiple points, deviating from a default point?
I have a set of 3D points that I need to "blend" between. Lets say I have points [A,B,C] and I have the amount I want to blend each as [0.5, 0.2, 0.8], how can I blend between these points with the ...
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How to linearly “blend” between multiple 3D points?
I have a set of 3D points that I need to "blend" between. Lets say I have points [A,B,C] and I have the amount I want to blend each as [0.5, 0.2, 0.8], how can I blend between these points with the ...
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Would like some help in understanding rendering geometry vs textures
So I was just pondering whether it is more taxing on the GPU to render geometry or a texture. What I'm trying to see is whether there is a huge difference in rendering two scenes with the same setup:
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Transforming a primitive tetrahedron into a primitive icosahedron?
I've created a tetrahedron by creating a BoundingBox and building the faces of the tetrahedron within the bounding box as follows (see image as well):
VertexPositionNormalTexture[] vertices = new ...
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Splitting Graph into distinct polygons in O(E) complexity
If you have seen my last question:
trapped inside a Graph : Find paths along edges that do not cross any edges
How do you split an entire graph into distinct shapes 'trapped' inside the graph(like ...
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Morph a sphere to a cube and a cube to a sphere with GLSL
I'm getting started with GLSL with quartz composer.
I have a patch with a particle system in which each particle is mapped into a sphere with a blend value. With blend=0 particles are in random ...
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Rotate an object given only by its points?
I was recently writing a simple 3D maze FPP game. Once I was done fiddling with planes in OpenGL, I wanted to add support for importing Blender objects. The approach I used was triangulization of the ...
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trapped inside a Graph : Find paths along edges that do not cross any edges
This is a graph based platformer level and the round shapes are creatures.
I am looking for a path traveling along edges that does not cross other edges(To simulate the creature crawling on the ...
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2D isometric: screen to tile coordinates
I'm writing an isometric 2D game and I'm having difficulty figuring precisely on which tile the cursor is. Here's a drawing:
where xs and ys are screen coordinates (pixels), xt and yt are tile ...
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Finding the normals of an oriented bounding box?
Here is my problem.
I'm working on the physics for my 2D game.
All objects are oriented bounding boxes (OBB) based on the separate axis theorem.
In order to do collision resolution, I need to be ...
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Moving CW or CCW?
Lets say we have a jagged shape:
And two creatures moving along it's outline.
Then we smooth the shape completely by pulling the corners out.
We get this:
It is easy to see now that Orange is ...
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“LNK2001: unresolved external symbol” when trying to build my program
I get the following error(s) on my program that captures the mouse and then draws a line.
Errors:
1>------ Build started: Project: Capture_Mouse_Line, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1> ...
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How to get distance from point to line with distinction between side of line?
I'm making a 2d racing game. I'm taking the nice standard approach of having a set of points defining the center of the track and detecting whether the car is off the track by detecting its distance ...
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Arbitrary Rotation about a Sphere
I'm coding a mechanic which allows a user to move around the surface of a sphere. The position on the sphere is currently stored as theta and phi, where theta is the angle between the z-axis and the ...
