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From: "Nathan Miller" <nmiller@igalaxy.net>
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Subject: Collision Detection Shortcut
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:39:53 -0800
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It is possible to use only two points and some tricky programming to check
collisions.  For a hint on the two point method, think of taking the old 2d
bounding box into 3d, cut out the useless points, and you have a simple
collision detection algorithm.  It is a lot quicker to check 2 points
against 2 point than check 10 points from a sphere against 10 points from
another sphere!

If you don't figure it out e-mail me,

Nathan Miller
Ryu-Ki Software
nmiller@igalaxy.net