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dimforge / rapier

2D and 3D physics engines focused on performance.
https://rapier.rs
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Documentation for understanding physic engines #507

Closed R2-t closed 3 months ago

R2-t commented 11 months ago

Hey everyone, I'm Santiago and it's my first time looking at a physics engine. I'd like to understand the project but I lack many of the math (I know what a vector is, basic operations such as dot and cross product) and geometry knowledge. If somebody could point me in the right direction to be able to understand the rapier library and in general how physics engines work, that'd be cool

lucasmaffazioli commented 3 months ago

ChatGPT and Gemini can be great for studying these kind of topics, I'm learning a bunch with their help. Also take a look at these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPfxjQ6sqrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lBYVSplAuo

sebcrozet commented 3 months ago

Hey! Browsing the bullet physics forum is often very interesting, as well as checking out the work from Erin Catto (author of Box2D).