[ODE] more physics

[Anselm Hook]

I was looking around for some information on this topic and ran across
these links that others may find interesting:

http://w3imagis.imag.fr/Publications/1999/Fau99/Fau99.pdf
http://w3imagis.imag.fr/Membres/Francois.Faure/faure.html

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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Russ Smith wrote:

>
> > looks like another physics engine...
> >
> > www.tokamakphysics.com
>
> interesting. yet another mention of iterative constraint solving methods
> here. the demos are kind of bare bones (i.e., like ODE's bare bones
> demos). no mention of the cost.
>
> the box stack demo has an interesting flaw: a nudged stack will tip over,
> then freeze part of the way down. this suggests that 'stable' box stacking
> is achieved through simply turning off the phisics for a stationary stack
> - which is a good idea, but it makes it hard to evaluate the stability of
> the underlying method for stacks.
>
> the collision looks like it allows penetration, like ODE. if you collapse
> the chain on top of itself it will squish into itself a bit then expand
> out.
>
> russ.
>
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