[ODE] StepFast1 documentation

[Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello]

why do you obtain face-face contacts? it should be reducible to a series of 
point-face and edge-edge contacts




>From: Antonio_Martini@scee.net
>To: ode@q12.org
>Subject: Re: [ODE] StepFast1 documentation
>Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:17:23 +0100
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>I have been experimenting with this kind of iterative method(in my physics
>engine) for a while a
>i noticed some unacceptable contact jittering in the face->face contact
>cases. Did anyone
>find a similar problem in Ode? it's looks like that to be stable LCP solver
>should be able to
>solve at least 3 contact points for a face->face contact. this implies that
>the iterative method should
>solve the contacts between two objects in one single step(sub LCP problem)
>rather that treating all
>the contact points as independent.
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>"David Whittaker" <david@csworkbench.com>@q12.org on 23/04/2003 06:29:01
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>Please respond to david@csworkbench.com
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>Hey everybody,
>
>I posted some documentation on the StepFast1 algorithm on my website at
>http://www.csworkbench.com/stepfast-doc.html .  All constructive criticism
>is welcomed.  Let me know if you want more or less explanation, graphics,
>or anything.  Hmmm, I should probably say a little more about the
>stepsize/iterations/autodisablethreshold relationship.
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>Russ, I came up with just post-fixing SF1 on the stepfast-1 specific
>functions.... it's a few characters shorter anyway.  Let me know if that
>will/won't work.
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>David
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