5.6 Scalar Projection
This video covers the dot product and scalar projection with p5.js and vectors, concepts that I’ll need for finding the distance between a point and a line which will lead to the path following steering behavior in the next video!
Nature of Code example on making vehicles follow a path
Craig Reynolds' paper on different styles of steering behaviors for characters in animation and games
Wikipedia entry on scalar projection
Wikipedia entry on vector projection
Coding Challenge to render a 3D cube in 2D using rotation and projection matrices in Processing
Nature of Code video on the unit vector concept and how to normalize vectors in p5.js
3Blue1Brown Essence of linear algebra video on dot products and duality
- Editing
by Mathieu Blanchette
- Animations
by Jason Heglund