Alan Zucconi

Tag: quaternions

  • Implementing Forward Kinematics

    Implementing Forward Kinematics

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    This tutorial continues our quest to solve the problem of forward kinematics. After exploring a mathematical solution in The Mathematics of Forward Kinematics, we will see how to translate it into C# for Unity. The next tutorial, An Introduction to Gradient Descent, will finally show the theoretical foundations to solve inverse kinematics. The other post in this series can be found…

  • The Mathematics of Forward Kinematics

    The Mathematics of Forward Kinematics

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    This tutorial starts our journey into the world of inverse kinematics. There are countless ways to approach this problem, but they all starts with forward kinematics. Inverse kinematics takes a point in space, and tells you how to move your arm to reach it. Forward kinematics solves the opposite, dual problem. Knowing how you are moving your arm, it…

  • The Transformation Matrix for 2D Games

    The Transformation Matrix for 2D Games

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    This tutorial will introduce the Transformation Matrix, one of the standard technique to translate, rotate and scale 2D graphics. The first part of this series, A Gentle Primer on 2D Rotations, explaines some of the Maths that is be used here.

  • A Gentle Primer on 2D Rotations

    A Gentle Primer on 2D Rotations

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    This tutorial will introduce rotations, translations and other affine transformations. This knowledge is essential not just for 2D games, but also to understand Quaternions and transformations in 3D games. This first post of the series is a gentle primer on 2D rotations.