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> All that calculation crap has no use, it just makes those who can do
> it feel like they got one up on the average man in the street.
Yeah. They can do "calculation crap" while the average man on the street cant.
Think about having to do volume integrals when building an Inertia Tensor for use in 3-d rigid body dynamics for complex objects.
I would class myself as an average sort of guy but I have a University degree which needed me to know this sort of thing as a basis for getting an "ENTRY" level job in the games industry.
It's also useful when doing CG movies too. Cloth and fluid dynamics are major research topics at companies such as Pixar.