Hello,

I'm aware of physical simulator included in blender. However it has different 
design goals: produce realistically-looking simulations for animation instead 
of physically-correct simulations which is necessary for studying. 
Consequently it also lacks some important features that Step already has, for 
example error estimations, units conversion, graphs.

As for Step3d, the main problem here is not simulation (the underlying 
simulation library can be relatively easily extended to support 3d 
simulations), but visualization and GUI. Implementing easy-to-use 3d scene 
editor is not a trivial task, and unfortunately I have no time to do it 
myself (at least in the near future). However if someone else would help with 
visualization part, I could do simulation part and Step will have 3d-mode.

Thanks a lot for you attention to Step !

-- 
      Best Regards,
        Vladimir

On Tuesday 23 October 2007 18:38:47 Miguel Marco wrote:
> I have been doing some 3d animation lately with blender, and i have found
> that it includes a physical simulator. It has the ability to simulate rigid
> bodys (the so-called game engine), but also deformable bodys and fluids
> (although these last two not too realisticly). Basically, you set the
> elements in the scene, stablish the forces that appear, and press "start"
> and the system evolves.
>
> So i wandered if Step could make use of that code to make it 3d. I think
> that, from the educational point of view, the possibility of making the
> students simulate the lab experiments actually "seeing the lab" in the
> computers could be very usefull.
>
> I don't know how Step is implemented, so ¿would it be possible to make it
> 3d-aware?.
>
>
>
> Miguel Angel Marco Buzunariz.
> Departamento de Matemáticas.
> Universidad de Zaragoza.
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