An interactive, user-driven physics simulator

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An interactive, user-driven physics simulator

• Tom Smilack

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Goal

• Accurate physics simulator
• Intuitive input methods
• Models the users situation

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First Quarter
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Second Quarter
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Third Quarter
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Fourth Quarter
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Progress

• Projectile motion
• Rotation
• Wall collisions
• Circle, rectangle input
• GUI
• Some work on collisions
• Anchors

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Anchors
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GUI
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GUI
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Input methods
Circle by radius
Circle by diameter
Rectangle
Other properties of the object
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Wall collision equations and implementation
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Rectangle collision detection
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Original Ideas Not Accomplished

• Object collisions (perfected)
• Contact forces
• Axles
• Other polygons/custom shapes