POV-Ray: Falling Cubes

I've been learning ODE (Open Dynamics Engine). It's an open source library for simulating rigid body physics real-time. Now, I made a program that simulates 1000 cubes falling onto a plane (with walls, which didn't get off quite good in this video :( ), and I let it make a .pov file for each frame. I've let it run to 1000 frames, rendered them with POV-Ray and assembled them into a video with mencoder, as usual. If you have any questions at all, ask me :). If it's regarding ODE, just look at their homepage: www.ode.org

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• pov-ray
• programming
• animation
• physics
• simulation

[daniyalman]

man u should have dropped the coins

[Benedek93]

@daniyalman Unfortunately ODE doesn't handle cylinder-to-cylinder collisions :-/

[Danny77uk]

@Benedek93 It does now! (as of 0.12)

[Benedek93]

@Danny77uk Wow, I didn't realize ODE was still under development. I haven't used ODE in a long time now, but this is useful to know. Thanks for the info!

[hhhhh5i]

wtf das muss lange gedauert haben!!!

[Benedek93]

@hhhhh5i Hehe, es war nicht so schwer... ich hatte schon alle benötigten Werkzeuge und Kenntnisse zur Verfügung :-)

Außerdem bin ich selten geduldig genug, lange Projekte durchzubringen :-D

Die Simulation selbst hat mein Computer auch ganz schnell durchgeführt.

[Danny77uk]

@Benedek93 Yeah a new collider for cylinders was added last year but they've only just gotten around to releasing a new snapshot.

[SmileyLegoGuy]

How do I do that? I have POV Ray but I have 0 idea how to use it!

[Bisqwit]

@Benedek93 Allright. It seems to happen when the number of objects in the scene grows beyond some limit. I traced it to stack size. Issuing "ulimit -s 32768" helped for now. The previous limit seems to have been at 8192. This is a Debian package I'm using so I can't easily change it to allocate from heap instead.

[Benedek93]

@Bisqwit Nope, that never happened to me.