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<span>🏀<span>2D</span></span>
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<h1>October 2021: Get back at it. 3D first</h1>
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If I'm being honest, I was busy moving to Canada the last two months, so I hardly made any headway at all in
the realm of physics engine work. Now that I am settled, it is time to get back on the horse! My goal is to
have a believable 3D physics engine (rigidbody mostly) by the end of the year. From there, I will figure out
what I want to do next.
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<h1>July 2021: 2D loose ends and 3D headway</h1>
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<li class="done">Finish SAT Collision Info (very close)</li>
<li class="halfway">2D rigidbody explanation 3</li>
<li class="failed">3D Rigid Body Collisions</li>
<li class="failed">ZIP file creator for downloads</li>
<li class="failed">Explanation of Quaternions</li>
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The last two months went almost as planned. I think I misjudged how long and how much brainpower it would
take me to write explanations for all of these things. A classic engineer mistake. We see writing,
and we think, "Easy, I can do that." And I usually can, but I am a bit rusty as of late. Additionally, this
writing involved a lot of diagrams and math equations that I struggled to put into HTML. I even had to learn
to make some simple drawings in gimp, which was a bit of a hurdle.
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That being said, I am fairly configdent that I can finish the above items in the month of July (maybe minus the
quaternion work, but we will see). To get my confidence up, I am going to begin with the ZIP file creator for
downloading individual projects. That will definitely be worthwhile.
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<h1>May/June 2021: More Collisions</h1>
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<li class="halfway">SAT Collisions for Convex Polygons with Explanation</li>
<li class="done">2D rigidbody physics demo + explanation 1</li>
<li class="done">2D rigidbody physics demo + explanation 2</li>
<li class="halfway">2D rigidbody physics demo + explanation 3</li>
<li class="done">Remove (or hide) ellipse collision pages for now</li>
<li class="done">3D scene setup</li>
<li class="abandoned">3D scene basic physics with spheres bouncing around a scene</li>
<li class="abandoned">Pill Collisions</li>
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Obviously, the month of April did not go as planned. I got caught up with a number of tasks that I couldn't handle,
namely, the pill collisions. These, as I discovered, were quite unfeasible and involved a lot of complex maths
that I didn't quite yet understand. They are also unreasonable for game development's sake, so I will ditch that
effort and focus on doing other things. This, of course, is not time entirely wasted, as I now I have a somewhat
better understanding of why ellipses (and by extension ellipsoids, although I am not entirely sure of this). I should
<i>instead</i> try to figure out the intersection using pills, not ellipses. Pills are simply 2D shapes made of a
rectangle in the middle and two half-circles at either ends. This is a far less expensive collision to calculate.
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I also failed when it came to getting a good physics collision system going. This stemmed from a general misunderstanding
of moment of inertia and how it can properly be implemented for each shape. I think I am getting a better grip on it now,
however.
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And that brings me to May/June. I am combining these two months because I am quite busy in May with family stuff,
and hence won't be able to give my full attention to the project. That being said, as a high-level goal, I hope to
get some more 2D collisions going, and maybe move onto 3D fairly soon. For 3D, I would simply like to get the physics
simulation up and running with simple objects (spheres, cubes, etc.). From there, I want to begin exploring more complex
physics simulation topics like oct-trees, multiple collision resolution, etc. We will see what happens, but I am optimistic,
so long as I stay the course.
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<i>Edit:</i> I am going to focus on SAT collision and AABB collision detection going forward for this month. In addition,
I am going to finish the descriptions/demos for regular rigidbody collision. Afterwards, if I have time, I will move onto
3D collisions.
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<h1>April 2021: Ground Work and Initial Collisions</h1>
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<li class="done">Orthographic rendering basics</li>
<li class="done">Uniform build Process for WebAssembly</li>
<li class="done">WASM Framework with simulation loop</li>
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<h2>2D Collisions with Descriptions</h1>
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<li class="halfway">Ellipse-Line Collision</li>
<li class="failed">Ellipse-Ellipse Collisions</li>
<li class="failed">Ellipse-Circle Collisions</li>
<li class="failed">Ellipse-Square Collisions</li>
<li class="done">Rectangle-Line Collisions</li>
<li class="halfway">Circle-Line Collisions (Redo)</li>
<li class="failed">Rectangle-Circle Collision</li>
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<h2>Brief Wasm Series</h1>
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<li class="halfway">Getting started with WASM docs</li>
<li class="halfway">Wasm examples</li>
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Everything above has a due date of <b>April 30th, 2021</b>. None of it is that hard, so this should be a very doable timeline.
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