01-17-2017, 11:56 AM
Here's what we're currently working through...
This is all to equip us to fix this issue, though I can imagine some other great stuff that may come out of it.
So far, it seems like a really great book — well written, exceptionally clear, and with lots of pseudocode and examples. It presents a very different approach to modeling physics than I've ever seen before; instead of dealing with linear and rotational motion separately, you mix them together, representing the state of an object with a single (six-dimensional) vector.
It looks like this approach simplifies the math (and the computer code!) quite a bit. Pretty neat stuff! If anybody has any interest in physics or simulation, I highly recommend it.
This is all to equip us to fix this issue, though I can imagine some other great stuff that may come out of it.
So far, it seems like a really great book — well written, exceptionally clear, and with lots of pseudocode and examples. It presents a very different approach to modeling physics than I've ever seen before; instead of dealing with linear and rotational motion separately, you mix them together, representing the state of an object with a single (six-dimensional) vector.
It looks like this approach simplifies the math (and the computer code!) quite a bit. Pretty neat stuff! If anybody has any interest in physics or simulation, I highly recommend it.
Joe Strout
Lead Developer, High Frontier