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How is "real software" different from video game software? I ask because it seems like most consumer applications that run on our machines or that we use on the
by drakonka 5y ago
How is "real software" different from video game software? I ask because it seems like most consumer applications that run on our machines or that we use on the web also just have to be good enough to be tolerated by the human using it, or "fool the human mind". Where does the line get drawn between "real software" and fake (I guess?) software for you?
- amelius 5y agoI'm thinking of a mathematical physicist working on fluid simulations versus a game developer who just uses some basic finite differences scheme that looks nice but is otherwise not very realistic. Or some CAD software developer who has to think about robustness of their geometric primitives versus a game developer who doesn't really care if computations fail every now and then.
- seba_dos1 5y agoJust yesterday I've implemented collision detection between two figures in a game by simply sampling a small number of points inside the relevant shapes - and guess what? Works well enough.