Re: collision detection
Michael Jones (mtj++at++babar)
Thu, 20 Jul 1995 07:26:53 -0700
On Jul 20, 3:01pm, KUMMERFELDT wrote:
> Subject: collision detection
:Hello,
:having tried to implement a collision detector for Inventor scenes, I
:experienced this is a pretty tough task. My intention is to move a single
picked
:object in an Inventor scene and to detect whether collisions occurred.
Bounding
:box collision detection is not sufficient and more comfortable detectors are
:either intricate and/or time consuming. Therefore I'm trying to find an
already
:implemented detector this way. Can anybody help? I hardly can imagine this
:problem has not been solved already. Possibly software can be bought anywhere?
:Hints are highly appreciated.
:Thanks in advance
:Georg Kummerfeldt
Georg:
It sounds like you want scene-graph .vs scene-graph intersection
detection. This is a very difficult problem to do quickly, and one
that is supported in neither OpenInventor nor IRIS Performer.
Sorry,
Michael T. Jones
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