July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 26m
English
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The video games we’ve shown so far use a frame—of 1/60th of a second or whatever—as a basic unit of time. We’ll show you how continuous time lets you remove the concept of a frame, and model the animation in a clean, natural, declarative way that’s closer to the underlying concept. If it’s a physics simulation, the model can more or less directly express the physics.
The difference between a discrete (or frame-based) and continuous representation of time is analogous to the representation of space in images. There are two basic models of images:
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