Re: [Pyode-user] Sandwich plane

[Simon W. <sim...@gm...>]

On 1/9/06, Matthias Baas <ba...@ir...> wrote:
> Apart from that, I'm not sure if your technique is a good idea at all. I
> wouldn't be surprised if the simulation does weird things sooner or
> later because ODE smashes the objects from one plane to the other and
> accumulates high velocities in your undesired third dimension.
> You may probably want to set the Z values of all positions and
> velocities to zero after each simulation step (in which case the above
> planes might even be superfluous).

Hmm I might try this.

> Of course, the best solution would be to switch to a true 2D simulator
> as this one could be much more efficient than a full 3D simulator
> projected back to 2D.

Thanks for the feedback. I agree, however, I cannot find a 2D
simulator. Do you know of any such thing?

Before I started using ODE, I started coding a 2D simulator using
Numeric. However, my knowledge of physics is not enough to finish the
job.

-Sw.