POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Collision with energy loss : Re: Sliding / flowing Server Time
29 Jul 2024 16:19:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sliding / flowing  
From: Mark James Lewin
Date: 27 May 2002 18:09:52
Message: <3CF2AED0.238C961B@yahoo.com.au>
Rune wrote:

> Scott Moore wrote:
> > If you're trying to keep things simple then maybe you could treat the
> > vertical and horizontal energy loss coefficients separately (maybe
> > coefficients isn't the right word but I'll use it anyway!) By vertical
> > I mean perpendicular to the tangent of the collision point and by
> > horizontal I mean the tangent of the collision point. The horizontal
> > energy loss is handled by the material's friction coefficient and the
> > vertical energy loss is handled by the elasticity coefficient.
>
> Yes, this is what some others have suggested too, and I think I'll use
> this approach. :)

This is the approach I took for my system and it works ok. Good luck with it.

MJL


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