oh no are people following me because i did math?

[lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko What, where, why?

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lisyarus this thread

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/115809815464677228

[lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko Ohhhh. Nice approximation though! I wonder if there's something deep behind it or it's just a coincidence

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lisyarus i dunno! i started with `lerp(x, pi/2, pow(x, 8))` but the distortion wasn't strong enough near the edges cause the curve wasn't steep enough

then i remembered that there's a circle ease where the graph, well, looks distinctly like a circle, including a very steep angle at the end

so i decided to switch `pow(x,8)` with that term and sure enough, if i made it even steeper by raising it to the 2nd power it was almost identical

[lenain@rivals.space]

@eniko mandatory bird meme

[j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz]

@lisyarus @eniko Not at my computer to try it out, but why isn't a simple Taylor expansion (which skips the sqrt in exchange for a few multiplications) enough? 🤔

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@j_bertolotti @lisyarus @eniko hey

https://sociale.network/@oblomov/115811316048332524

[brunolevy01@fosstodon.org]

@eniko yes 🤣

[lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@j_bertolotti @eniko Taylor is typically only good around expansion point, but this approximation is good across the whole range

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@BrunoLevy01 prepare to be dazzled by my lack of any actual knowledge! :'D

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@lisyarus @j_bertolotti @eniko I was thinking that the c factor could be computed with Taylor. Given that the actual best results are achieved with 1.95 and not 2, I was wondering how that would affect it.

[j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz]

@lisyarus
For an arcsin you only need it to be good in the (-1,1) interval, and for a smooth analytic function Taylor converges pretty quickly. Again, might not be optimal, but it would have been my first attempt.
@eniko

[lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@j_bertolotti @eniko It will still struggle towards the end of the range. Here's the expansion up to x^11: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/1bai5gkuay

Tbh my first idea would be to least-squares fit a polynomial

[brunolevy01@fosstodon.org]

@eniko asking good questions is at least as interesting as giving good answers !

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@lisyarus @j_bertolotti @eniko can you do the same but only for the c^2 part? (I would do it myself but currently impossibilitated)