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Math

lxpk’s personal skill (something lxpk has learned or wants to learn) posted by lxpk Fri, 2008-03-28 13:32

Groups: Math
Skill Group: 
Math
Skill Category: 
Learning
I need to relearn a lot of my mathematics to be skilled enough to do 3D game programming again. I want to gather the resources I can learn from here and develop some quizes and missions so that anyone can master math whenever they want to, especially high-school students who want to get ahead of the curve.
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Quaternions are your friend

Submitted by iMammal on Mon, 2008-05-12 15:34.
They are used in 3D rotations and things like that. They are like imaginary numbers ... squared. That is, instead of having just a real and imaginary term in your complex number, the quaternion has a real term and three complex terms represented by i, j, and k. Also matrix manipulation is really handy too since the GPU assembly languages have those functions hardwired in.

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