Millington - Game physics engine development: how to build a robust commercial-grade physics engine for your game

How to Build a Robust Commercial-Grade Physics Engine for your Game

Second Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Millington, Ian.

Game physics engine development : how to build a robust commercial-grade physics engine for your game / Ian Millington. 2nd ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-12-381976-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Computer gamesProgramming. 2. PhysicsData processing. I. Title.

QA76.76.C672M55 2010

794.81526dc22
2010014533

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ISBN: 978-0-12-381976-5

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