Re: [vos-d] Thought problem 2: physics 2

2007-02-02 Thread chris
On 2/3/07, chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/3/07, Reed Hedges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chris wrote: Of course... why not use a big integer for time? I would guess that lots of software does, especially since that's what most operating systems give you (e.g. time_t). A big

[vos-d] Thought problem 2: physics 2

2007-02-01 Thread chris
Thought problem 2: physics 2 Suppose I am going to do a rigid body simulation. I put one box (box1) on a plane, at the origin and hold another box (box2) suspended a meter above the plane nearby. I release box2 at time t=20 and it bounces, perhaps collides with box1 then eventually comes to rest.