"Games are not physics engines. They are experiences. And racing games, more than many others, deliberately manipulate reality to deliver those experiences."
A quote from this great article by @wassimulator, dealing on core building blocks of vehicle physics simulation in video games.
https://wassimulator.com/blog/programming/programming_vehicles_in_games.html
Awesome overview on the subject, even for folks not working physics code but on car games. Love it! 😍
Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. #nuclear #physics
She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on “Damping of Electrical Oscillations,” before embarking on #radioactivity research. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci
This month's Distributed Proofreaders blog delves into the newly uploaded "Newton's Principia."
"In it, Newton expounds, with mathematical proof, what is now the bedrock of modern physics: his groundbreaking laws of motion and universal gravitation, and his explanations of the motion of planets, moons, comets, tides, fluids, and other physical phenomena."
https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/08/01/newtons-principia/
Newton's Principia at PG:
