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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/10/14 01:31, Jerome Duriez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * CapillaryPhys/MindlinPhys.isBroken is a bool attribute that is false
> by default, never updated, and never usefully used neither in c++ nor
> py files of source. Furthermore, its meaning according to the doc
> seems quite redundant with "meniscus". Do you agree if I remove it ?
> (it = isBroken)
>
Ok.

> * Furthermore, the design of "meniscus" itself might maybe be
> improved. Around l. 119  [1], this bool is set to true as soon as
> there is contact, or if distantMeniscii should be created
> And, around l.149 [2], it is set to false when volume is zero.
What is wrong here? meniscus is true when there is a meniscus (i.e. a
finite volume).

> This seems to me contradictory (zero volume meniscii might "form"
> between contacting spheres depending on the succion) and, associated
> to the test l.139 [3], it leads, in some cases, to interactions that
> are never deleted, even if there is no more geometrical overlap
> neither a meniscus with a non-zero amount of water (because erase on
> l.160 might be switched).
I don't see the problem. Can you please show how to get these non-erased
interactions?
Cheers.
Bruno