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Re: applications for secondary ed?
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Lowell Prange
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Jul 17, 2003 03:58 PDT
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At 12:03 PM 07/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:
| | Do 9th and 10th graders take linear algebra in this, the best of all
possible computer gaming generations? Did someone make a video game of
linear algebra? If so, where can I get it?
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Welllll...
Linear Algebra has an application in 3d graphics. Transforming a
3d matrix to a 2d screen. However, I don't think you could play first
person shooter games and call it educational.
Also .... what I would be curious about is how much programmers
really think in these terms. Programmers don't always choose mathmaticaly
elegent methods.
I wrote a 3d maze program in highschool that only used a 2
dimentional array to tell were maze walls were and where other objects
were. The screen was hidden from the user briefly while the program drew
the viewpoint strarting with far away walls and often drawing closer walls
over the top. (ever play a first person game were you can briefly see
through a wall? .... i believe the same thing)
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