[ODE] Should trimeshes react to physics?

Olex mr.olexander at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 14:52:43 MST 2005


Does anyone know of a paper on this subject of filtering and combining
contact points?

On 12/12/05, Jon Watte (ODE) <hplus-ode at mindcontrol.org> wrote:
>
>
> > from an average of 20 to 6. However, the real problem that causes
> explosions
> > is conflicting contacts where at a slope contacts are generated with
> > differing normals such as one pointing straight up and another one
> nearby
> > pointing diagonally upwards.
>
> Part of contact filtering is to sum up close to coincident constraints
> into a single constraint, for example using the average of the normal
> and penetration depth. If you get into situations where you get lots of
> contacts, filtering is very necessary.
>
> I guess it'd be useful if ODE had a built-in "default" contact filter
> which could be used by people who don't want to write their own.
>
> Cheers,
>
>                         / h+
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