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1999 Game Developer Magazine Article Companion

The following applications and source code samples are for educational purposes only! Use at your own risk.

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December 1999: 2D Water Effects
November 1999: Blob Modeling
October 1999: Skeletal Deformation
September 1999: Pool Table Physics
August 1999: The Trials of Tribology

July 1999: Facial Animation Part 2

June 1999: Facial Animation
May 1999: Cloth Simulation
April 1999: Soft Body Particle Dynamics Part 2 - Better Integration
March 1999: Soft Body Particle Dynamics
February 1999: Axis Aligned Bounding Boxes
January 1999: 2D Collision Detection


December 1999: 2D Water Effects
Agua
Source Code and Exe (368KB)
2D Water Ripples


November 1999: Blob Modeling
Blobby
Source Code and Exe (161KB)
Blob Modeling


October 1999: Skeletal Deformation
Skully
Source Code and Exe (357KB)
Article in PDF format

Skeletal Deformation in OpenGL


September 1999: Pool Table Physics
Pool
Source Code and Exe (185kb)
Article in PDF format

Pool Table Physics

Warning: Not a game. Just a demo to show how billiard physics can be approached. Only two balls with no pockets but it could be made into a game pretty darn easy. I'll leave that up to you for now. What do you want, it's free?


August 1999: The Trials of Tribology: Friction Forces in the Particle System
Clothy
Source Code and Exe (233KB)
Article in PDF format
Friction Forces using Mass and Spring System


May 1999: Cloth Simulation using Mass and Spring System
Clothy
Source Code and Exe (205KB)
Article in PDF format
Cloth Simulation using Mass and Spring System


April 1999: Particle Dynamics Part 2 - Better Integration
Squashy
Source Code and Exe (190KB)
Article in PDF format
3D Particle Dynamics Simulator with Better Integration

There was a typo in the images showing the deviation for different integrators. The numbers should have been
Figure 1: Stepsize 0.8 Kd 0.8
Figure 2: Stepsize 0.8 Kd 2
Figure 3: Stepsize 0.8 Kd 2.6

I have also posted an Excel chart that I used to get those values that you can play with if you are interested.
Excel Chart


March 1999: Particle Dynamics
Squashy
Source Code and Exe (190KB)
Article in PDF format
3D Particle Dynamics Simulator


January 1999: 2D Collision
Fate
Source Code and Exe (260KB)
Article in PDF format
2D Collision Detection Demo