> Yes and no.  Yes, in the sense that Wonderlands can easily support
> visualizing the results of physical simulation.  No, in the
> sense that you might not get an interactive frame rate, depending
> on how complex your simulation calculations are.

Certainly true ... but ... I've just seen a really nice (real-time) physical
simulation of a flag (blowing in the wind) in Squeak (done by David A.
Smith; geesh - we really need some nick names for all the Dave Smith's on
this list ;). We're actually going to do more work in this direction with
the plan being to build kind of a mini-APL sublanguage in Squeak that can be
used to do exactly this kind of physical simulations (and a lot of other
stuff).

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> You might find yourself better off doing
> non-real time rendering (simulate a frame, render a frame,
> store the frame
> as an image), and then stitching the images back together
> into a movie and
> playing it at the desired rate.
>
> Jeff
>
> At 05:42 PM 9/8/01, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
> >Hi Squeakers!
> >
> >I would like to know if Wonderland is suitable for 3D physical
> >simulation (not just 3D animation) ? Does anybody got some experience
> >with this kind of application in Squeak ?
> >
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