Re: breve 2.3 beta: major physics improvements

Is it possible to get a command line version of 2.3b for Mac OS X?

  - tim

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, jon klein wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I'm releasing a beta of breve 2.3 for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.
> It's looking like the focus of this new release will be on improvements
> and bug fixes to the physical simulation subsystem in breve.
>
> Below is a list of the major changes, many of which are in response to
> bugs and feature requests made on the mailing list.  If you have a
> breve simulation which makes use of physics, please do try it out with
> the new builds and let me know if you encounter any problems or if
> there are any outstanding bugs.
>
> - fixed joint limits and "get-angles" for BallJoints.
>
> - fixed "get-angles" for UniversalJoints
>
> - the axes for BallJoints have been changed -- please see the
>    BallJoint documentation for more details
>
> - fixed various collision detection issues that could lead to
>    object penetration
>
> - added "get-force" and "get-torque" methods to joints, to allow
>    users to detect how much force/torque is being applied by a joint
>
> - fixed crashes related to freeing multibodies
>
> - added "get-colliding-objects" method to get a list of all objects
>    currently colliding with another.
>
> The betas can be downloaded from here:
>
> http://gibson.hampshire.edu/~jklein/breve_2.3b.dmg
> http://gibson.hampshire.edu/~jklein/breve_linuxgnu_2.3b.tar.gz
> http://gibson.hampshire.edu/~jklein/breve_windows_2.3b.zip
>
> One last note: I currently do not have a Windows machine to test on,
> so the Windows build is, unfortunately, completely untested.  Feedback
> for the Windows version is greatly appreciated.
>
> - jon klein
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Tim Oates, Assistant Professor
Department of CS and EE
University of Maryland Baltimore County
(410) 455-3082
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~oates


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