[ODE] Mass and Tetrahedron?

Mattias Fagerlund mattias at cambrianlabs.com
Wed Feb 12 03:21:01 2003


> > Does anyone have the code to generate a mass for a tetrahedron?
> 
> I'm not particularly well versed in physics, but I would think that an
> ODE mass for a sphere could accurately represent any polyhedron as
> well. Am I right (honestly I'm not sure)?

No, it might be used to aproximate a regular tetrahedron (one where all 
sides are equal), but not an irregular one. A tetrahedron can be the 
shape of a very looong point object. Not at all sphere-like.

cheers,
m