Rays and Intersections
To prevent our avatar from walking through trees, we’ll start by imagining an arrow pointing down from our avatar.
In geometry, we call an arrow coming from something a ray. A ray is what you get when you start in one place and point in a direction. In this case, the place is where our avatar is and the direction is down. Sometimes giving names to such simple ideas seems silly, but it’s important for programmers to know these names.
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