Collision detection

I dislike collision detection with a burning passion.
I don't have problems creating a tile-based system (which is trivial) or a simple 2D system with circles and arbitrary polygons, but that's it. I tried to program a 3D system once and while I didn't fail completely, it was far from what I'd like to accomplish. Additionally, pretty much every system which I do resolves collisions after moving objects, since I don't really know how to do this in a different way (aside from a shitty recursive algorithm I once did).

So, could any of you help me? I would really appreciate if you could give me links etc. I will do some more searching on my own as well, but you EXPERT PROGRAMMERS probably know what could help me.

Also, does anyone here have Ericson's Real time Collision Detection? I'd like to read it, but it's quite expensive (over £35 used and over £50 (!!) new on amazon).

And lastly, let's have a discussion about collision detection (you know, about actual programming) ;-)

Read code and papers. Welcome to the internet.

Game programming isn't actual programming.

http://www.metanetsoftware.com/technique.html has ray-based collision tutorials as well as simple shapes.
Also, there's no reason you can't just add an extra dimension and the necessary code, 3D is only triangles anyway.

>>1
You seem poor. Are you poor?

>>5
Silly man, satori doesn't judge a man of his class or amount of wealth. Some of the best minds the world has ever known have been, let's say, a bit "financially challenged".

another roof, another proof

>>6
Are you implying that the Sussman is somehow short on Susscoins? Doesn't sound very likely to me.

>>3
You just raped my nephew with those words. Prepare to be turned into a whale.

And beached.

>>8
No, not at all, sir. The Sussman is not short on Susscoins. He kindly takes in all of those who wish to learn the way of satori. Regardless if they're of wealth and class or not.

http://www.gphysics.com/files/IterativeDynamics.pdf

>>9
I can't start crying over here.

>>12
I think this may be my best post yet.

>>9
So I'm, like, an eagle now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODORlSRPQ5g

use ODE

http://www.box2d.org/

>>1
Do you mean like a The Ginger detector?

>>17
It's spellet ⁶⁶gieger₉₉

>>18
It's spelt `spelled'.