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Praise for Game Physics Engine Development

“ Game Physics Engine Development is the ﬁrst game physics book to emphasize building an

actual engine. It focuses on the practical implementation details and addresses trade-offs that

must be made. Ian’s experience with commercial physics engines deﬁnitely shows. His book

ﬁlls a gap by demonstrating how you actually build a physics engine.”

— Dave Eberly, President, Geometric Tools

“Ian Millington has achieved the remarkable task of creating a self-contained text on game

physics programming. If you are charged with putting together a game physics engine, this

book will carry you through from beginning (with a math and physics primer) through the

process (with detailed attention to extendable software design) to the end (collision handling

and constrained dynamics). If you are asked to use a game physics engine, this text will help

you understand what is going on under the hood, and therefore make you a better user.

The text is practical enough to serve the industry practitioner (read this before starting

your project!), and the writing is solid enough to be used in an undergraduate course on

video game physics. Game Physics Engine Development comes bundled with working source

code closely matched to the text—a valuable service to the reader: the bundled implementa-

tion serves as a foundation for experimentation, a reference for comparison, and a guide to

modular software design. Millington’s writing maintains a steady pace and a friendly tone; the

narrative level will appeal to a broad audience of students and practitioners.”

— Professor Eitan Grinspun, Department of Computer

Science, Columbia University, New York

“A competent programmer with sufﬁcient mathematical sophistication could build a physics

engine just from the text and equations—even without the accompanying source code. You

can’t say this about a lot of books!”

— Philip J. Schneider, Industrial Light + Magic

“Thorough content with an engaging style; the essential mathematics is presented clearly with

genuine and effective explanation and appropriate scope. The C++ code samples are a major

strength.”

— Dr.JohnPurdy,DepartmentofComputer

Science, University of Hull, UK

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IAN MILLINGTON

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Millington, Ian.

Game physics engine development / Ian Millington.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN-10: 0-12-369471-X (alk. paper)

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