Whelp, it’s 3 AM and we’re six hours into the jam. I think I’m going to be heading to bed pretty soon, but here’s the results of the first 1\/12 of the jam.<\/p>\n
Team: Bret Hudson<\/a> (me), and Dan Fessler<\/a><\/p>\n We didn’t start until about 2.5 hours after the jam started, since we had a bit of a difficulty coming up with an idea (which I’ll go more into tomorrow), and then both of us decided to grab some food. Here’s my work thus far: (click the links to watch 6 second vine videos of the thing in motion!)<\/p>\n Centripetal motion<\/a><\/p>\n This was a bit interesting to get working, as I went through a few iterations. I wanted to make sure I didn’t do my typical Cos\/Sin method with an angle, because the planets are going to be affected by outside forces, so it was important to make sure we were using real physics. I ended up using the cross product of two 3D vectors to get the result.<\/p>\n Chain physics<\/a><\/p>\n I had never tackled chain physics before, but understood the basic concept. You need points and then the springs between them. The points have a mass and it determines how the springs interact. Thanks to a tutorial by NeHe (link here<\/a>), I was able to get it up and going rather quickly.<\/p>\n There’s something else I’ve been working on regarding the chain physics, but it’s buggy, and requires me to do some more thinking on how exactly it all interacts. I’ll be uploading a video of the final result when I’m done. That’s about it!<\/p>\n Also, Dan is still working on concept art as we speak. No pretty pictures for you yet, but soon!<\/p>","time":"August 23rd, 2014 12:24 am","title":"LD30: Six hours in"}