An example of intimidation affecting the brain

Feb. 12th, 2005 at 4:20 PM

Working on my game, attempting collision detection--and I forgot how to calculate the distance between two euclidean points. WTF? I knew a sqrt was involved, but. Damn! DISTANCE, folks!

Okay, making progress...

Then I almost freaked out at finding the midpoint. Seriously, not a proud day in the Kaolin life. But I got that with just a short bit of panic and a shake of the head. Now pounding my skull on the nearly-as-obvious disk/sphere collision. I have an intuition for how to do that that feels fairly inspired, and I just need to figure out exactly which variables to tweak to get what I need.

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narnianspoonful

Feb. 13th, 2005 01:08 pm (UTC)

dude

((x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2)^.5 = distance

midpoint:
((x1+x2)/2) , (y1+y2)/2))

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kaolinfire

Feb. 13th, 2005 01:23 pm (UTC)

Re: dude

well, 3 dimensions; but yeah. I'm not saying I was stuck on it, just that it wasn't at the tip of my mind already.

Now I'm back to wondering which vector I've screwed up s.t. the asteroids don't explode the right directions--or if it's a programming thing, and I'm overwriting my change somehow somewhere. :/

Moving forward, slowly slowly.

Next game is going to be so much easier. :)

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narnianspoonful

Feb. 13th, 2005 03:38 pm (UTC)

Re: dude

3d is same in principle. the hyp in question has two hyp legs

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