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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

As gamers and gaming platforms continue to evolve and diversify, so has the complexity and variety of problems facing the modern game programmer. Creating the latest code for graphics, gameplay, animation, physical simulation, artificial intelligence, and procedural generation requires thorough knowledge of the necessary mathematical underpinnings.
This tutorial continues the tradition of the "Math for Programmers" tutorial by presenting talks on a wide variety of subjects, including: biased randomness, navmesh generation, floating point error, procedural generation, and wave function collapse, as well as a deeper dive into intuiting splines, dot and cross products, and quaternions.

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Understanding and Tracing Numerical Errors in C++

Gino van den Bergen (Dtecta)

Generating and Using Navigation Meshes

Ben Sunshine-Hill (Havok)

End-to-End Procedural Generation in 'Caves of Qud'

Brian Bucklew & Jason Grinblat (Freehold Games)

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Math for Game Developers Organizer

Squirrel Eiserloh

The Guildhall at SMU

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