Ryan Medeiros

This math project is similar to a game of paddle-ball except that there are five balls on the string, and the balls are teapots!  Teapots were strung together using spring dynamics and allowed to rotate in three dimensions.  The teapots act as spherical rigid bodies.  The project computes a first-order physics simulation relying on moments of inertia causing both translation and rotation.

This was a fun project in that I was able to test a lot of matrix math that I had previously created in my engine without any real use for.  Adding rotational inertia to actors also posed an interesting challenge.  I am quite pleased with the end result.

Here you can see the simulation running:

Simulation in Action