Re: [Algorithms] Integrating acceleration in 3D

[Jonathan B. <jo...@nu...>]

You want to start reading books on "control theory".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory

> In three-space, I'm stumped.  My naive implementation swims all
> over the place, the object essentially goes into orbit around
> the target point once it's within a distance that I'm guessing
> is relative to the acceleration value and the timestep.  I
> quickly realized that the problem was because I had just
> reverted to computing the velocity once per frame and making it
> constant over the whole timestep.  I can "damp" the system
> easily enough by truncating the move vector if it tries to go
> past the point, but that's not desirable.
>