Vector Cookbook

Although vector operations are easy to easy to describe, they are surprisingly subtle and powerful and have many uses in games programming. The following pages offer some suggestions about using vectors effectively in your code.

• Understanding Vector Arithmetic
• Direction and Distance from One Object to Another
• Computing a Normal/Perpendicular vector
• The Amount of One Vector's Magnitude that Lies in Another Vector's Direction

Page last updated: 2013-09-17