Terence Martin (OdatNurd)

After making the last post] regarding the Pythagorean Theorem and it's usage as a distance calculation algorithm for use in games, I thought I would take a quick aside from my intended next topic of trigonometry to discuss an alternative method for calculating the distance between two points, which is not as accurate (depending on your needs), but also requires less computational work. For some applications it might actually give you a better result. It's called the Manhattan Distance Formula.