Adjustments to the buoyancy demo to make the code more easily reusable #263
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…hen computing the area of the submerged shape. The plane's position in this demo happens to be 0 so it worked fine, but using the planePosition variable may help avoid a hurdle for people who use this code as a template.
…he number of shapes in the body. This way, two bodies with equal mass and area but with different numbers of shapes will behave the same. Without this change, the forces were disproportionately larger for complex bodies (such as the four-rectangle body2 in the demo), causing them to settle higher in the water than simpler bodies would.
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JCWardle
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Aug 7, 2017
| @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ | |||
| } else if(aabb.lowerBound[1] < planePosition[1]){ | |||
| // Partially submerged | |||
| var width = aabb.upperBound[0] - aabb.lowerBound[0]; | |||
| var height = 0 - aabb.lowerBound[1]; | |||
| var height = planePosition[1] - aabb.lowerBound[1]; | |||
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I was caught by this issue as well when I was running my own implementation.
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I was using the buoyancy demo as a template for my own water simulation code, but I was tripped up on some simple edge cases that were not accounted for in the demo.
This pull request includes "fixes" for those edge cases, so that others might not get caught by them when copying this code. First, the submerged-area calculation hard-coded the water plane position (14728c0). Second, the forces were disproportionately calculated for bodies with different numbers of shapes (fc33f4d).