Game SDF And Field Modeling

Use this skill when a game system is better represented as a function over space than as explicit triangles. Treat fields as gameplay and content tools, not only rendering tricks.

Primary source: Geometry for Programmers by Oleksandr Kaleniuk (https://www.manning.com/books/geometry-for-programmers), transformed and paraphrased, especially chapters 2, 8, 10, and 11. Additional sources: NVIDIA GPU Gems 3 chapter 34, "Signed Distance Fields Using Single-Pass GPU Scan Conversion of Tetrahedra" (https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-v-physics-simulation/chapter-34-signed-distance-fields-using-single-pass-gpu), and "Designing with Distance Fields" by Perry, Frisken, and Jones (https://merl.com/publications/TR2006-054).

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