Reza Nourai's Game Development Ramblings
Random discussions about game development. Particularly math, physics, collision detection/response, and performance.
Moving to wordpress
To give me a bit more flexibility and control over the blog, I'm moving this blog to...
Date: 06/01/2014
Introduction to Geometric Queries
Just about every game, whether simple or complex, will require making geometric queries. It’s...
Date: 03/02/2014
Reviving the blog
As you may have heard, the Xbox One shipped! :) I spent the past 2 years working on various OS...
Date: 02/08/2014
Math Primer Series: Rotation Representations and Quaternions
We saw the power and usefulness of transforms in the previous primer posts, and we’ll be using them...
Date: 04/29/2012
More posts coming, magazine article published!
I apologize for the lack of updates in a while, but things have been pretty busy at work. I’m...
Date: 04/22/2012
Math Primer Series: Matrices III: Affine Transformations and Matrices
We’ve seen matrices used as representations of a basis, and we’ve seen them used as linear...
Date: 11/20/2011
Math Primer Series: Matrices II: Linear Transformations
In the last installment of the math primer series, we looked at the basics of matrices. Today, we’ll...
Date: 10/02/2011
Barycentric Coordinates and Point in Triangle Tests
I know it’s been a little while since my last post, and I apologize. I’ll try and keep...
Date: 08/07/2011
Math Primer Series: Vectors III: Affine Spaces, Linear and Affine Combinations
In this chapter of our primer, we’ll examine affine spaces, and see what affine and linear...
Date: 06/26/2011
Math Primer Series: Vectors II: Vector Operations
In the last installment of this math primer, we looked at the difference between points and...
Date: 06/01/2011
Math Primer Series: Vectors I: Points vs. vectors
Some math and physics libraries contain separate data types to represent points and vectors. I’ve...
Date: 05/19/2011
Math Primer Series: Intro, Notation, and References
This is the first part of a multi-part primer and reference for the math we’ll be using...
Date: 05/18/2011
My First Post
The first post... what should I talk about? I guess a little about me, and a little about what's...
Date: 05/15/2011