Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (2009)

I'm not sure how much someone who wasn't already familiar with vectors could get out of this. This seems to be a common issue with informal lessons like this[1]. The article starts seemingly assuming you have no idea what a vector is, but after showing a few graphs opines "As you can see, a vector by itself is just a set of numbers". I don't think someone who didn't already know what a vector was and how to recognize a…

I've just re-read what I've said, and while I'm going to leave it as written, I'd ask please not to take it the wrong way. My background is in pure math, so my understanding and expectation is different from most people here. So ... I'm surprised to see this sort of thing described as "Linear Algebra" because to me it's just utterly basic vectors, pretty much the first 20 minutes of the Linear Algebra course I did. I've always been…

The fact that this has been submitted reasonable often is clear evidence that people find it interesting and and useful. There have been some substantive discussions of the article, and of what Linear Algebra is (and is not), and there might be value in having a look at them. Here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940552 My opening comment on that was initially read by people as being negative, but it really isn't. It's about a mis-match in what people call Linear Algebra…