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A simple matter of precession

I have a bug in the physics code, there may be others, but this one is mine.

I assumed it’s possible to rotate around only 1 axis at any given time, this is far from correct:

http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/gyro_txt.htm

It’s apparently possible to rotate around multiple axes simultaneously under effect of constant torque. This is known as precession, it’s not very intuitive.

This will be one of the higher priority fixes.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 at 4:34 am, by Nerdfish. It is filed under General.

One Response to “A simple matter of precession”

  1. CCTSM Says:
    April 4th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

    Well. You did ask about it on MSN once, and I believe the consensus was that you can indeed rotate around as many axes as you want.

    And that was around a year ago or so. :P

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