[PD] evaluate 3d iterative structures

[simeon cosik]

hello, thanks for the reply, are you telling me to take off all the
positions of all the geos and then evaluate in other program?

what about gem_listinfo? i could take of all the positions an save them
in a text file? and  which other software should i use to make this
calculations?
I just checked there is a Ode version that run in pd , called pyode, i
think ode works fine for rigid body simulations, do you think this is a
good option in pd?

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:01:03 -0500 (EST), "Mathieu Bouchard"
<matju at artengine.ca> said:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, simeon cosik wrote:
> 
> > Hello, how can i evaluate 3d structures generated in puredata to know if 
> > it can support itself if i build it in reality? for example imagine that 
> > each structure is conformed by a group of boxes one over the others made 
> > with "repeat",i would like to add gravity and weight to all the boxes so 
> > i can i calculate the threshold that i need to maintain in order to 
> > avoid the collapse of my structure. Is this can be done with pmpd? Any 
> > idea?
> 
> You would need to remake your patch to also work without GEM, or find a 
> way to download the geos from GEM.
> 
> One way to make such a "dual-output" patch, is to make it as an 
> abstraction, taking an argument that selects the library it is going to 
> use. suppose your patch is called mymodel.pd:
> 
> [mymodel]            would use GEM
> [mymodel gemdump/]   would use a library called gemdump/
> 
> Then within that patch, you would prefix every geo and every geo 
> transformation by $1, such as [$1rotateXYZ]. After that you'd have to
> make 
> a somewhat complex abstraction library that could dump all the 
> coordinates.
> 
> Actually, this pattern (of switching libraries) is very useful, but in 
> this case, it may be too hard, so if I were you, I'd first look for 
> something that can download the geos from the video card, and if I don't 
> find any, I'd make that GEM emulation library that would give me all 
> vertices and edges.
> 
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