[ODE] fixed joints

[Fig TaTam]

So will anyone improve current "fixed joint" code?
I can't do it myself since I'm not familiar with ODE that much.


>From: "Adam D. Moss" <adam@gimp.org>
>Reply-To: aspirin@ntlworld.com
>To: ode@q12.org
>Subject: Re: [ODE] fixed joints
>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:16:22 +0100
>
>Fig TaTam wrote:
>>I get the idea that fixed joints are unwanted in ODE. But why? They may be 
>>uninteresting for the simulation, but they can be useful in practical 
>>applications.
>
>I think that there's a more recent reason that's popped up
>for fixed joints being useful -- stepfast.  The stepfast
>docs hint that multiple bodies tied together with fixed
>joints may be a good way to use large mass ratios without
>stepfast's instability in this area.  I can also envision
>the interpropogation of correction between multiple bodies
>modelling a single solid as simply being more stable and
>correct in the general case, when using stepfast.
>
>--Adam
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