[ODE] Units confusion

Aras Pranckevicius nearaz at gmail.com
Wed May 18 15:04:57 MST 2005


> AFAIK ODE is using the MKS system (Meters - Kilograms - Seconds). But I
> could be wrong.

ODE uses whatever units you supply to it. It you like expressing
distances in parsecs, masses in pounds and time in 1/7th of average
dog's lifetime - it's fine.

Precision issues aside, you can supply that to ODE directly. Just make
all units consistent (eg. gravity is expressed in distance-units
divided by time-units-squared, so plug in a value that makes sense in
your situation). Same with masses, timesteps, etc.

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Aras 'NeARAZ' Pranckevicius
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