Questions tagged [linear-algebra]
Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning vector spaces and linear mappings between such spaces. The tag is generally used for questions regarding calculations over vectors.
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How does a 4x4 matrix represent an object in space and matrix lore?
I have been following some tutorials on how Matrix maths works, with adding, dividing, scaling, etc, but I am struggling to understand how the 4x4 matrix represents an object's position in space.
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Calculate initial velocity for trajectory given duration, launch angle, and distance
I need my entity to go from point A to point B with a given launch angle over a given time.
I've been able to figure out the initial velocity without the constraint of the launch angle, but I can't ...
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Dot product not working as expected
Recently I am learning dot product,
While below code works from Unity's documentation,
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Dot.html
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What are projection independent ways of determining whether a normal is facing the viewer?
A position v and normal n are given in world coordinates. Also there is a view matrix V for ...
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Velocity Relative To A Vector
So I have a velocity vector b in world space and I have a "pointing" vector a in world space. I need to know how to make the ...
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Convert transform from world to local space
I have a hierarchical node system. Given a world space transform, I need to obtain the transform for a specific node in local space.
My Node class has the ...
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find Vector2 libgdx
I need to get coorinates of red point. Coordinates are just for example, it would be better to see the common formula. Found code like this, but it gains wrong result.()
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Distance between two lines (textbook answer vs practical application)
I'm reading through "Mathematics for 3D Game Programming, and Computer Graphics" as a refresher, and leading in to some more complex real world problems down the line. However, one of the early ...
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Timed Line Drawing
I'm trying to program a remake of the classic Missile Command Atari game from scratch, but I've run into a problem. So I have a function that can draw a line from one point to another. I figured I ...
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Display mesh in front of camera
Im trying to display a mesh in front of the camera and FACING the camera ( I'm developing an small editor in wpf using helix3d).
Pretty much something like this question
I load my mesh into a ...
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How do splines work?
I've been beginning to work with different kinds of splines (e.g. Bezier, Hermite, B-splines) in some of my work with computer graphics and I am trying to get a grasp of how they work (mathematically ...
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Is studying Alternate Coordinate System required game development? [closed]
I don't know whether or not this question is fit for Gamedev.Stackexchange, but I would like to know :-
I am new to Linear Algebra. I only want to study those parts of Linear Algebra which would ...
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What is the most efficient way to determine collision path
I am trying to create a game in which I need to know if two objects will collide in the future, and when. I have both object's position, radius (they are circles) and velocity.
A specific example of ...
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Most efficient way to get the world position of the 8 vertices of a Box Collider
What I am looking for is the most efficient way to get the world position of the 8 vertices of the Box Collider of a freely rotated Game Object. I cannot use collider.bounds since object is rotated, ...
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In unity, how do I rotate a vector in relation to the player?
I am making a radar script in a unity FPS game project I am making for class. I already have a working example of a radar script that works in relation to the player's position. However the rotation ...
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Tween - keeping a constant velocity at different distances
I am using a tweening library to move my units around. The problem is that the speed varies depending on the distance that the unit has to move because of the tweening:
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Adjust postion only in X axis
I have two game objects named A and B, just as follows:
I want to move object B to this ...
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Project 2d click/touch onto 3d plane
I have a 3d scene that contains an infinite plane that is NOT parallel to the camera (so every screen coordinate corresponds to a point on this plane- in other words, there are no possible invalid ...
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convert 2d pt into non-affine coordinate system
Say I have a coordinate system that goes from (0,0) to (1,1). We'll call this screen_space.
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How to calculate height of a thought line over a known spot in 3rd person view?
Assuming a player object with third-person-view is in a 3d room and the center of the screen has a dot - let's call it "cursorTarget".
All I have is the position of the player, the position 5 meters ...
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How to find the "up" direction of the view matrix, with GLM
Using OpenGL and the GLM matrix library, I want to translate my camera relative to the world coordinate system. This requires me to compute the necessary view matrix. To initialise the view matrix, I ...
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Finding coordinate in radius
Hello i have two points (Vector3) A and B. And have a radius r
How can i find a coords of ...
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How to get a pleasant path accelerating to a point
I am having trouble moving an object to a target position with a maximum acceleration limit.
If i just accelerate towards the target the object will fly in a doughnut a few times before hitting the ...
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How to calculate coordinates of ball when collided with a wall?
I'm developing a game like bubble shooter and need to implement bounce of ball off the vertical wall. I have the following inputs:
Starting position of bubble: ...
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How does collisions caculates when developing game in Build an HTML5 Game book
I don't understand author's logic when calculating collisions between two circles (bubbles). Here is the Calculating collisions section.
Author writes:
The bubble being fired follows a set of ...
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How to calculate normal vector of a Bézier curve?
How I can calculate the normal vector for two dimensional Bézier curve?
(I have the control points of the curve in the x y plane)
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How do I correctly project a point behind the camera?
I am making a 3D game in which I put an exclamation marker above points of interest.
In order to find out where in the 2D screen should I put my marker, I am manually projecting the 3D point where ...
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Detect if two objects are going to collide
I am working on a car game where I am to create an AI. In the game there are other cars and a few objects moving around that I do not want to crash with, I have the speed, position and direction of ...
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CGVectorMake to move SKNode at a certain speed towards the middle of screen?
I am trying to launch my ball sprite towards the middle of the screen at the same speed every time I launch it.
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How to figure out a vector based on 2 points that add up to a certain value
I am writing a game in which I am representing a velocity with a vector. I have a starting point and a point that I want the object to move towards at a certain speed. (I need the resulting vector's x ...
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Problem with 2D matrix transform og shapes
I have set myself onto the task of creating a class BaseObject, which represents a graphics object with an associated shape as the member variable shape, which is a pointer an object Polygon. I'll ...
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How to represent ray and line segment in parametric form?(Visibility)
I am trying to implement this algorithm but am not sure how I am supposed to represent my ray and my line segments(walls).
For the r_px/r_py do I just use the position of the light? For the r_dx/r_dy ...
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How can I reverse the effect of a transformation matrix?
I have recently been working on a game with using OpenGL and C++ through GLFW.
In the game I have an airship with a turret mounted on it. The airship moves around in world space coordinates and the ...
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Mixing Perspective and Orthographic Projections?
I'm going to start with some background, so jump to my question at the bottom for the TLDR version.
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In a Japanese 4gamer article (english translation via Chev on Polycount) explaining some ...
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trasformation matrix for model's bones
I was developing an fbx converter for legend of grimrock object model (www.grimrock.net), I just wanted to get the animations cause the rest has been converted by others' tools.
I was reading all of ...
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What is a direction vector and why should it be normalized?
I've been trying to get the hang of vectors and I read Wolfire's blog about linear algebra and I seem to understand most stuff except when it comes to storing a direction as a vector and using it by ...
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How to find point on a circle that's opposite another point?
How do I find the coordinate of point and angle value on circle sprite which placed on opposite side of sprite from a touch point and the center point of the sprite?
I know A position, B position and ...
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Closest distance from 3D point to vector line
First let's have a look at my little drawing:
I have an origin point p1 defined by x, y and z co-ordinates, and a vector v given by x, y and z magnitude.
I also have an arbitrary point, p2, given ...
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Are there 3D projections other than orthographic and perspective? [closed]
The question is pretty much in the title. Are there notable 3D projections other than orthographic and perspective that could be used in a 3D system such as OpenGL?
In particular, are there any that ...
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How to implement a simple bullet trajectory
I searched and searched and although it's a fair simple question, I don't find the proper answer but general ideas (which I already have).
I have a top-down game and I want to implement a gun which ...
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Understanding dot notation
Here's my interpretation of dot notation:
a = [2,6]
b = [1,4]
c = [0,8]
a . b . c = (2*6)+(1*4)+(0*8) = 12 + 4 + 0 = 16
What is the significance of 16? ...
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How to rotate a line in 3d space?
I am trying to figure out direction vectors of the arrowheads of an arrow. Basically I'm given a normalized direction vector ...
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How can I get a direction vector from a an Euler angle?
Im trying to get a directional vector from an euler angle. But im not getting how to do it. This is what i got so far.
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How can I find the perpendicular to a 2D vector?
I'm making a top down game where the player moves forwards towards the position of the mouse cursor. As part of the player's movement code, I need to determine a vector that is perpendicular to the ...
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Gerstner wave function simplified?
The gerstner wave function is a commonly used method to calculate waves and simulate water in video games and movies or most 3d simulations. It is however quite complex so it is very hard for young ...
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3d Water Simulation formula questions
I have created a Grid:
At each point along the grid, is a vertex (Intersection Points):
Each of these points has an x,y,z position. Vector3f(x,y,z). In an attempt to animate the grid into a group of ...
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Move player to mouse click
Im hopelessly not good at algebra and such. But im trying to learn. I want to learn and understand how to use it in game programming rather than modifying snippets or using classes that do it for me.
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Angle between two planes
I have two triangles in 3d space which share 1 edge and I would like to determine if the angle between their normal vectors is "uphill" or "downhill". In other words, if you set one flat, would the ...
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Can not seem to adjust the speed of my Car
I'm programming in C++, rendering in OpenGL and using GLM for matrix/vector manipulation and ...
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