IMGD 4000 Final Exam Topic Outline

Here is an outline of the topics that might be on the mid-term exam:

• Basic Game Physics
  • Physics engines
  • Kinematics
  • Dynamics
  • Rigid body simulation
    • Numerical simulation
    • Frame rate independence
  • Collision detection
    • Overlap testing
    • Intersection testing
    • Speeding up collision detection
  • Ragdoll physics
  • PhysX
• Networking for Games
  • Basic Internet Architecture
    • TCP
    • UDP
  • Network Address (Port) Translation
  • Loss and Latency

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