Gabriel Gambetta

I’m a Senior Software Engineer in Zürich; the author of Computer Graphics from Scratch ; and an actor/filmmaker .

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Pathfinding Demystified (2014)

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Pathfinding is one of these topics that usualy baffles game developers. The A* algorithm in particular is poorly understood, and the general belief seems to be that it’s arcane magic.