[ODE] Damping

[Nate W]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 david@csworkbench.com wrote:

> Right, but he was talking about applying the force at a different location
> than the center of mass, to invoke a torque, not varying the amount of
> force due to the cross-sectional area.... unless I just totally
> misunderstood him.

You understood me right.  I was thinking of geometry transforms.  If the
geom is transformed from the body center, you'd want to aim the drag force
at the geom center rather than at the body center.

> > A rectangular body would have a different air resistance wouldn't it?
> > Swinging it along the long axis would be more [aerodynamic] than the
> > shorter axis.  Less surface area.

That's true too.

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Nate Waddoups
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