Hi Dan, Breno is working on a Collision::Util ( http://github.com/garu/Collision-Util/) module to do Collision detection. It is still early. I will help Breno move some of the core of this module to XS for speed later.
I am actually also interested in bringing a physics engine to Perl via some good C libraries ( http://ode.org/) . I haven't done anything yet but if there is interest I will be willing to start porting one. Cheers, Kartik Thakore On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Dan Kortschak < dan.kortsc...@adelaide.edu.au> wrote: > Hi Kartik, > > I'm wanting to do some GA work with some spatial objects in Perl - > basically some evolutionary biology research looking at group selection > dynamics, so I need to figure out a really simple physics engine - > basically just collision detection (no problem) and position adjustment. > All the objects are circular for convenience. I've never done any > physics simulations, so this is all new to me. I've done some thinking > about it and 2 bodies is easy - any more is quite difficult and > potentially time consuming which is a no-no for the GA. > > Since you've been doing lots of work on SDL, I thought you would be a > good person to ask for advice on whether there are either good places to > read up on this or already written modules that are reasonably light > weight - I couldn't find anything that looked right on CPAN. I don't > need any graphics, just positions. > > thanks for your time > Dan > -- > Dan Kortschak <dan.kortsc...@adelaide.edu.au> > >
