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  Re: Particle Waterfall Test Image  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 11 Jul 2000 10:38:30
Message: <396b3166@news.povray.org>
"Mike Wilson" <maw### [at] iastateedu> wrote in message
news:396B222C.9B2802B4@iastate.edu...
|
| The particles just dropped right through the falls object unless I gave them
a
| fairly significant downstream velocity (equal to gravity) and made the
collision
| factor fairly large.  As it stands now, the particles are already within the
| collision zone as they exit the emitter.  Gravity and intial velocity drive
them
| into the falls object at a 45 degree angle where they immediately collide.
Since
| elasticity is set fairly high, they bounce back up again and go over the
edge.

Thanks for the explanation.  I hadn't thought about it being both a momentum
plus bounce for what it looked like at the top edge of the waterfall.

Bob


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