[ODE] Re: trilist strategy

[nlin@nlin.net]

On Thu Dec 12 11:00:02 2002, Nate W wrote:

> I thought he was talking about "non-thin" boxes.  IOW, if you fall
> completely through a thin box, you won't get pushed back the way you came,
> but if you fall a third of the way into a (deep) cube you will get pushed
> back.
> But what happens if you fall 2/3 of the way into a thick cube?

You get pushed out of the other side. The penetration vector is a purely
geometric property which is the minimum translation needed to bring the two
bodies into exactly touching contact, which has nothing to do with the way
the configuration came about.

-Norman