Skype or Real Time Collision Detection

Skype(tm): The Definitive Guide

Author: Harry Max

Learn how to make free phone calls to more than 75 million people, and dirt-cheap phone calls to practically everyone else, anywhere on Earth! You can do it with Skype. This book will help you get started fast, with any computer: Windows, Mac, Linux, even Pocket PC. Then, take Skype to the limit, with SkypeIn, SkypeOut, instant messaging, secure file transfer, even video calling.

 

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  Real-Time Collision Detection

  Author: Christer Ericson

  Today's sophisticated 3D games, virtual reality applications, and physical simulators involve rich graphical environments of millions of polygons. In these worlds, hundreds, perhaps even thousands of detailed animated objects may be interacting not only with these complex environments but also amongst themselves. With a typical update rate of 60 frames per second, a minimal amount of time is available for determining the intersection status of all objects in the world at a given time in order to maintain a believable simulation. Real-Time Collision Detection is a comprehensive, in-depth survey of the data structures and algorithms that make this possible. Taking a practical approach, the book discusses all the important components of an efficient real-time collision detection system. Topics covered include object representations, intersection tests, and distance queries, and the mathematics behind them: hierarchical and spatial partitioning methods, numerical and geometrical robustness issues, hardware acceleration methods, and advanced optimization for modern computer architectures. This book extends and broadens the discussion of collision detection in Collision Detection in Interactive 3D Environments.

  
  
  

  Table of Contents:

  Ch. 1	Introduction	1
  Ch. 2	Collision detection design issues	7
  Ch. 3	A math and geometry primer	23
  Ch. 4	Bounding volumes	75
  Ch. 5	Basic primitive tests	125
  Ch. 6	Bounding volume hierarchies	235
  Ch. 7	Spatial partitioning	285
  Ch. 8	BSP tree hierarchies	349
  Ch. 9	Convexity-based methods	383
  Ch. 10	GPU-assisted collision detection	413
  Ch. 11	Numerical robustness	427
  Ch. 12	Geometrical robustness	465
  Ch. 13	Optimization	511