Calculating gravity in realitime ?

Lord · Post by **Lord** » Sun May 31, 2009 9:29 am

Any progress?

Maybe this helps a little (sorry, but it's in german):
http://www.scai.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin ... ortrag.pdf

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:50 am

pdwyer wrote:I think I know what I'm doing wrong now seeing as the outer part of the ellipse is correct and the inner part not as it speeds up...

this seems to indicate that your time slices need to be shortened at that part of the ellipse?[/u]

Lord · Post by **Lord** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:16 pm

No. As pdwyer already mentioned, he has to consider accelaration in his calculations.
In my example, \ax and \ay get and hold the respective accelarations.

pdwyer · Post by **pdwyer** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:44 pm

haven't got back to this yet... sorry, getting there. you advice had put me on the right track I think though