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  Re: Square Particles?  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 9 Dec 2001 04:34:22
Message: <3C13301D.EC644828@gmx.de>
David Buck wrote:
> 
> [...]
> The hardest problem is the continuous contact case.  You have to allow two rigid
> bodies to slide along each other with friction (ideally) yet not
> inter-penetrate.  I've read papers on this and I think I sort of "get it", but
> implementing it correctly is a different matter.

I think you usually approximate the friction characteristic (with has a
jump when the relative speed is zero) with a differentiable function.  

Christoph

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