[ODE] dRay class

Nate W coding at natew.com
Thu Jul 25 12:17:02 2002


On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Erwin de Vries wrote:

> Yesterday and today i've written a dRay class. It interacts with dPlane,
> dSphere, dBox and dCCylinder. It does not generate full contact information.
> It only generates the pos member. I dont think its useful to anyone to go
> through hoops and find a reasonable normal and penetration depth, as i dont
> think anyone will want to use it for dynamics. Just for CD.

I was thinking of writing (what sounds like) the same thing, to simulate a
range-finding sensor for robot control systems.  That sounds really
useful.  Any chance this could be a contrib-ution?

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Nate Waddoups
Redmond WA USA
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