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    The Minkowski Portal Refinement collision detection algorithm is a technique for determining whether two convex shapes overlap. The algorithm was created...
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  • filter's ability to capture small particles (< 1 micrometre) Minkowski Portal Refinement, a computer algorithm for detecting collision (overlap) between...
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  • contains_origin := NearestSimplex(s) if contains_origin: accept Minkowski Portal Refinement Hyperplane separation theorem "A fast procedure for computing...
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  • volume Game physics Gilbert–Johnson–Keerthi distance algorithm Minkowski Portal Refinement Physics engine Lubachevsky–Stillinger algorithm Ragdoll physics...
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    conceptions can be realized through some elementary constructions based on the refinement of the first axiom of geometry, namely, the concept of a point by considering...
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    peculiar consequence of this system of definitions is that any future refinement in our ability to measure c will not change the speed of light (which...
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    helped to understand this regulatory role. In 1889, the physician Oskar Minkowski, in collaboration with Joseph von Mering, removed the pancreas from a...
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    Mathematicians now know of many types of projective geometry such as complex Minkowski space that might describe the layout of things in perception (see Peters...
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    historically known as the Einstein shift. 1907-8 – Hermann Minkowski introduces the Minkowski spacetime and the notion of tensors to relativity. His paper...
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    necessary, to give the piece a dramatic consistency, and to suit it to the refinement of a modern audience." In the summer of 1724, after the first run of Giulio...
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