[ODE] another collision detection question

[Anselm Hook]

yes; if there is a chance that they will interpenetrate later - follow
your intuition on this one.

-a


On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Martin C. Martin wrote:

> Benny Kramek wrote:
> >
> > If two objects are just touching, do I need to make a contact joint?
> >
> > In other words, is it neccesary to create a contact joint that would
> > have a depth of zero?
>
> If I understand contacts correctly (someone correct me if I don't), you
> would want one with a depth of zero, to "discourage" interpenetration at
> the next time step.  It's still a one sided constraint, that says "depth >
> 0 bad, depth < 0 good."
>
> - Martin
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