[ODE] hardware physics chip

[Jeffrey Smith]

Vrej Melkonian [mailto:vmelkon at yahoo.com] wrote:
> Is it possible to create a special chip for physics? It's not like 
> graphics that can really benefit from a specially designed chip.

Yes it is possible, and yes physics can benefit from a specially designed
chip.  It is possible to parallelize much of the physics computation
required for medium-to-large scenes in addition to having specialized
hardware for extremely fast 4x4 matrix computations

Limor Schweitzer <limor666 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know if these guys base their stuff on ODE ?

They are using Novodex (www.novodex.com), which has been written by some
ex-MathEngine employees (among others), and thus shares some architectural
similarities with ODE.

It's an extremely robust physics engine, you should check out the demos.

-jeff