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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> but what about simply using rotateAndGetShear, which is already available?
> Splitting this function, as it is partially done, it is useful but in cases
> in which some operations into the contact law are necessary (like damping).
> You said that that function could be used to rotate any vector (in this case
> the input would be a total shear displacement vector instead of shear force)
> and it will return the increment shear displacement. No need to update code.
> It would be only two lines code more (one line to call the function and save
> the returned increment, the other to add the obained increment to the total
> shear displ vector).
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Don't worry Chiara, what you have done will still be functional. What we
discussed today was in relation with memory locality in parallel processing
(right? :) ). After changes, the rotate function would be faster, the
computation of relative velocity would not. Nothing more.

Bruno