[ODE] <Survey>: ODE - Present and Direction.

[GARY VANSICKLE]

> One choice that I didn't see was the sanction of a GLUT-like ODE
> Utility Library that could encapsulate the non-core functions of ODE
> (such as cloth, fluids and more evolved collision structures).

I have a hard time seeing how this could be done in a relatively painless
manner.  I recall reading a paper many moons ago on a way to somehow
decouple e.g. rigid body simulation from cloth, but I don't recall the
solution being very elegant, though I may not recall correctly.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle