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[Anton Gladky <gladky.anton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Bruno, for the explanation!

As for me, it is a little bit confusing stuff with those engines.

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Anton Gladkyy


2009/11/30 Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> 1- The clear part :
> A MetaEngine is something that will dispatch objects to some engineUnits.
> Example : the InteractionGeometryMetaEngine  will call engineUnits
> sphere2sphere , sphere2box, or sphere2facets depending on the types of body1
> and body2.
>
> 2- The less clear part :
> Standalone and DeusExMachina engines can work alone (they don't call other
> engines, neither are they called by others).
> So, what is the difference between them? On the programming side, no real
> difference (except a few differences in members of base classes). The
> difference is more in terms of what they do, and also a matter of personal
> taste... So, here is my feeling about this : standalones are supposed to
> handle simple aspects of the physics : a contact law, Newton's law, this
> sort of thing; while DeusEx is something controlling what happens in a
> specific problem (boundary conditions, switching from one loading to another
> based on a condition, etc.) or getting information from the simulation (all
> sorts of recorders).
> This definition is not totally consistent with the current spliting, which
> is a result of how we all interpreted differently the meaning of standalone
> vs. DeusEx.
>
> Bruno
>
>
>
> Anton Gladky a écrit :
>
>> Hello, all!
>>
>> I do not understand the logic of the engines division: StandAloneEngine,
>> Engine....
>> Do we have it somewhere described?
>>
>> Thank you.
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