Marc ten Bosch
Description: The personal website of Marc ten Bosch. Games: Miegakure, 4D Toys... Publications: N-Dimensional Rigid Body Dynamics... Talks: Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine, Exploring and Presenting a Game's Consequence-Space, Designing to Reveal the Nature of the Universe...
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Miegakure is a platform game where you explore the fourth dimension to solve puzzles. Our world is three-dimensional: width, depth, and height. But what if there was a fourth physical dimension that we cannot see, in addition to the other three?
I present a formulation for Rigid Body Dynamics that is independent of the dimension of the space. I describe the state and equations of motion of rigid bodies using geometric algebra. Using collision detection algorithms extended to nD I resolve collisions and contact between bodies. My implementation is 4D, but the techniques described here apply to any number of dimensions. I display these four-dimensional rigid bodies by taking a three-dimensional slice through them. I allow the user to manipulate these
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Marc ten Bosch