Perfect Circle - Circle Collision Detection

[Turing_Gamer]

This is a nice tutorial but after looking over that huge descripion I'm going to stick with 1 ball collision like in pong. Maybe once I understand the words and techniques more I could use this.

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P.S. Why would anyone give negative karma???

EDIT: Can Math.Distance also work in the 2 ball collision?

[pcaston2]

Wonderful article! I am running into an issue though and can't seem to find an elegant solution.

I use the code in this article over the course of a "second" (change in t = 1). After each second the velocity of each object is updated by acceleration, and a percentage of the velocity is removed (for drag). Once I've made changes to velocity, I proceed with the next second.

I have two circles continually accelerating towards each other. They detect the collision and bounce apart. As mentioned in the article, at time of collision the objects could technically be inside each other (rounding error). What sometimes happens is that two objects collide, and before they can be propelled apart, the velocity is updated (acceleration towards each other) and the collision doesn't occur (collision time is negative and not within {0,1}).

I can detect that the objects are within each other and no time has gone by, but what do I do in this case? I get stuck in an infinite loop where no time is going by and the circles aren't moving.

Any advice?

Thanks!

[Raknarg]

post some code, maybe?

Also, mightve made more sense to make a new topic

[AnsonKindred]

Really awesome concept and clear explanation, but I have one question. In your timeToCollision method

Quote:

A := balls (i).vx ** 2 + balls (i).vy ** 2 - 2 * balls (i).vx * balls (j).vx + balls (j).vx ** 2 - 2 * balls (i).vy * balls (j).vy + balls (j).vy ** 2
B := -balls (i).x * balls (i).vx - balls (i).y * balls (i).vy + balls (i).vx * balls (j).x + balls (i).vy * balls (j).y + balls (i).x * balls (j).vx - balls (j).x * balls (j).vx + balls (i).y * balls (j).vy - balls (j).y * balls (j).vy
C := balls (i).vx ** 2 + balls (i).vy ** 2 - 2 * balls (i).vx * balls (j).vx + balls (j).vx ** 2 - 2 * balls (i).vy * balls (j).vy + balls (j).vy ** 2
D := balls (i).x ** 2 + balls (i).y ** 2 - balls (i).r ** 2 - 2 * balls (i).x * balls (j).x + balls (j).x ** 2 - 2 * balls (i).y * balls (j).y + balls (j).y ** 2 - 2 * balls (i).r * balls (j).r - balls (j).r ** 2
DISC := (-2 * B) ** 2 - 4 * C * D

A and C appear to be exactly the same:

Quote:

A := balls (i).vx ** 2 + balls (i).vy ** 2 - 2 * balls (i).vx * balls (j).vx + balls (j).vx ** 2 - 2 * balls (i).vy * balls (j).vy + balls (j).vy ** 2
C := balls (i).vx ** 2 + balls (i).vy ** 2 - 2 * balls (i).vx * balls (j).vx + balls (j).vx ** 2 - 2 * balls (i).vy * balls (j).vy + balls (j).vy ** 2

Am I missing something here?