Re: New in performer...
Andreas Loesch (loesch++at++lola.gsf.de)
Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:25:02 -0600
On Sep 20, 2:54pm, Nicolas Gauvin wrote:
> Subject: Re: New in performer...
[stuff about collision test in performer deleted]
>
> An interesting article was recently published on this subject in the
> Siggraph 96 proceedings:
>
> OBB-Tree: A Hierarchical Structure for Rapid Interference Detection ,
> S. Gottschalk, M. C. Lin and D. Manocha
>
> They propose an efficient and accurate way of doing close volume to volume
> collision test using oriented bounding box trees build from triangles
composing
> volumes.
>
> You can check their web pages to find a postscript version of this
> article as well as a C++ library called RAPID implementing this
> scheme.
>
> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~geom/OBB/OBBT.html
>
> I have used this library to add volume to volume collision detection
capability
> to Performer. It gives very good results especially
> when doing all the collision processing in a separate ISECT process.
>
>-- End of excerpt from Nicolas Gauvin
Are you willing to put this extension in the public domain?
Andi
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