chris wrote: > Thought problem 2: physics 2 > > Suppose I am going to do a rigid body simulation. I put one box (box1) > on a plane, at the origin and hold another box (box2) suspended a > meter above the plane nearby. I release box2 at time t=20 and it > bounces, perhaps collides with box1 then eventually comes to rest. I > snap an image of the rest state of the sim. > > Now I repeat the entire sim with viewpoint, boxes and plane in exactly the same > position as before. I drop box2 at time t=8000, let it bounce and snap an > image of the sim when it is at rest. > > Question: will the two images of the two experiments show box2 in the > same rest position relative to box1? >
Well first I was going to say "of course not." But then I realized... time is probably floating-point as well, and has less precision when the number is bigger... oh snap! Of course... why not use a big integer for time? -Ken _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list vos-d@interreality.org http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
