From: Michael Zyda Subject: ANNOUNCE: new collision detection package, V-COLLIDE Date: Tue, 8 Jul 97 14:40:15 -0700 [Again, this is a cross-post from the infobahn mailing list. See bottom of the page for subscription information. -T.E.] ************************ V_COLLIDE **************************** We announce the release of a new collision detection package, V-COLLIDE for large environments composed of polygonal models. Some of its key features are: 1. It is applicable to all polygonal models - including models which contain no adjacency information, and obey no topological constraints. The models may contain cracks, holes, self-intersections, degenerate polygons and non-generic (e.g. coplanar and collinear) configurations. 2. It is numericaly robust - the algorithm is not subject to conditioning problems, and requires no special handling of degenerate cases (such as parallel faces, degenerate triangles, etc). 3. It supports dynamic addition and deletion of objects from the environment. 4. Support for mulitple independent collision detection engines. 5. Incremental computation and fast overlap tests. The V-COLLIDE library has been developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is free for non-commerial use. More information about the source code, documentation, sample applications and differences with other software packages developed at UNC (I-COLLIDE and RAPID) is available via the WWW: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~geom/V_COLLIDE/ Ming Lin UNC Chapel Hill U. S. A. ---+----+-----+------+-------+--------+---------+----------+-----------+ To subscribe to infobahn: Send email note to infoadmn@cs.nps.navy.mil Put