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Understanding the concept of angles is critical fo.. Use different geometric shapes to build a new shap.. Take a walk along the farm to learn about graphing.. Kids will love this educational math game! Learn a.. The answers are at the end of the article, but do have a go at solving them on your own first. The virtual world you encounter in a computer game is basically made up of a space occupied by polygons with decorations on.
These polygons can be decorated in a number of ways to make them look better, but in this section we focus on the geometry and the process of rendering it drawing the polygons. Computer graphics have improved vastly over the past 40 years, and the main reason for this is the improvement in processors which allows more polygons to be rendered. To begin to explain how these games work, you need to know a bit about geometry , vectors and transformations.
Geometry is the study of shapes of various sort. The simplest shape is the point. It's quite difficult to explain what a point is, it is basically just a position, for instance, the very end of your nose is a point.
Another simple shape is a straight line. A straight line is just the simplest shape joining two points together. A plane is a more complicated shape, it is a flat sheet, like a piece of paper or a wall. There are more complicated shapes, called solids , like a cube or a sphere. Here are some pictures of these things. Simple geometric figures If you have a line and a plane, you can find the point where the line cuts through the plane. In fact, sometimes you can't find the intersection, because they don't meet and sometimes the line is inside the plane so they meet at every point on the line, but this doesn't happen in the cases we're interested in.
We call this the intersection of the line and the plane. Here is a picture of what this looks like. Intersection of a line and a plane A vector is a mathematical way of representing a point. You can think of these numbers as how far you have to go in 3 different directions to get to a point. For instance, put one arm out pointing to the right, and the other pointing straight forward.
I can now give you a vector and you'll be able to find the point I'm talking about. Here is a picture of a vector. One confusing thing about vectors is that they are sometimes used to represent a point, and sometimes they are used to represent a direction.
A transformation moves a point or an object, or even an entire world from one place to another. For instance, I could move it to the right by 4 metres, this type of transformation is called a translation. Another type of transformation is rotation. If you take hold of an object a pen for instance , and twist your wrist, you have rotated that object. Here are some pictures of rotations and translations.
Translations and rotations. Projection on to a plane. The game will have a camera somewhere in the world, which takes on the role of the painter in the paragraph above. The camera might be positioned as if it is looking out from a character's eyes, in which case the player will see as if through their eyes, or it might be positioned high up to give an overview of what's happening.
In order for a game to move at a smooth and enjoyable speed, the computer needs to go through this process for everything the player can see at least 50 times a second. When you consider that every polygon also has to respond to light sources appropriately, you start to realise how many calculations need to be performed.
How many can you do? Box made from triangles. Here is a much more complicated example, using thousands of triangles. The first picture shows the triangles used, the second picture is what it looks like with colours put in:.
Viking Helmet. The reason for using triangles is that they are a very simple shape, and if you make sure that everything is made from only one type of shape, you don't have to write a separate program for each type of shape in the game. Exercise 3 [Making triangles] Draw a picture of a box with a smaller box stuck to the top of it, using only triangles.
This makes the rest of the calculations much easier. Secondly, it removes all the triangles you can't see so that it can forget about them, for instance the triangles that are behind you or the ones that are so far away that you can't see them. Fill the Figure Fill the figure with the given shapes. Shape Inlay Drag the tiles to complete the shape. Shapes Planar and Solid Shapes: Select the correct shape. Shape Invaders Destroy the impostor shapes and save the world. Zoo Designers You have to use your knowledge of how to calculate perimeter and area to design the correct enclosures for the animals.
Snap The Shape: Spring In this colorful puzzle game your task is to fill different patterns with pieces. The pieces come in various sizes and forms - simply drag them to the board and find their correct positions to fill out the pattern completely. Geometry is also used in movies too. In order to create the mind blowing special effects we see in Sci-Fi films, the same principles are used.
You use a Software Development kit, and then you create a wire frame model of what you want to do, then finish it by adding lighting and shaders to the scene, and texturing your wire frame. This has been a procedure used by all the special effects companies such as Industrial Light and Magic and Weta Digital. It was revolutionary. There is so much to still be discovered in Geometry; uses for it, new shapes, and many other things.
It is just a matter of time before we discover it all, and there is nothing left. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website.
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