[ODE] Non-deterministic behavior

nlin@nlin.net nlin at nlin.net
Fri Aug 29 22:23:02 2003


On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:16:30AM -0400, Josh Welber wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with ODE giving non-deterministic 
> results?

As a comment I'd like to point out that test_crash.exe (the stepfast demo)
gives non-deterministic behavior. You can press "r" to reset the simulation,
yet if you press "r" several times, the car(s) crash into the wall in different
ways each time. I don't know if this is due to stepfast or ODE or a flaw
in test_crash.cpp, but it's worth investigating.

-Norman