[ODE] Tokamak and Netwon Game Dynamics

[George Birbilis]

also see the newly released Novodex Physics SDK
http://www.novodex.com/
they have some interesting demos, running very fast!

the truck in city demo is quite bad though

seems both Unreal and MilkShape3D will include this engine in their future
versions

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George Birbilis (birbilis at kagi.com)
http://www.kagi.com/birbilis
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "luca regini" <l.regini at diesgroup.com>
To: <ode at q12.org>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 4:33 PM
Subject: [ODE] Tokamak and Netwon Game Dynamics


> Lately i have seen that two new products are joining the market in physic
> engines: tokamak and "newton game dynamics".
> I have seen that both of them claim to be better than ode in some way or
> other, so i am posting here some questions.
>
> Newton claims that:
> "Our engine implements a deterministic solver, which is not based on
> traditional LCP or iterative methods, but possesses the stability and
speed
> of both respectively"
>
> while Tokamak claims:
> "TOKAMAK definitely has much faster joint solving + c++ interface + solved
> problem with primitive vs.. triangle collision + solid objects + breaking
of
> objects + object sleeping "
>
> To my knowledge ODE architecture follows the current state of the art in
> analytical physic engines.
>
> I wonder how could it be that tokamak has a faster joint solving engine (
> besides hardcore optimization), shouldn't it be an LCP solver anyway?
>
> And regarding Newton, LCP iterative solvers are of linear complexity and
so
> they are damn quick. I haven't heard of any deterministic solver that  can
> rivals LCP iterative methods.
>
> Anyone has some clues?
>
> Greets,
> Luca
>
>
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