[Bf-committers] Some Maths / ideas / solutions for Softbodies.

[Alexander Ewering]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Robert Wenzlaff wrote:

>> Mabye cloth is not the guideline but people will certainly use it, and
>> it will crash with forward euler.
>> Users will think it's a bug, and not a mathematical limitation.
>
> If it crashes, it is a bug, even if it is due to a mathimatical limitation.
>
> If the mesh explodes because the ODE's are too stiff, that's a mathimatical
> limitation.

It doesn't crash, it's just too stiff ODEs. Though I must admit I still
don't understand the mathematical background *why* it "explodes" (after
slowly building up random noise)

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