[Imstk-developers] What's the scale for iMSTK?

[Sreekanth Arikatla]

Hi Nick,
           It will, but it is up to the user to input the numbers in
consistent units. For example at present, we input the gravity as 9.81 in
order to be consistent with the rest of the problem definition (where we
use *meters *and *seconds*). Depending on the problem there could be cases
where a local inconsistency in units could be canceled out but it is rare.

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Milef, Nicholas Boris <milefn at rpi.edu>
wrote:

> Wouldn't this affect things like gravity though?
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> *From:* Sreekanth Arikatla [sreekanth.arikatla at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 12, 2017 9:08 PM
> *To:* Milef, Nicholas Boris
> *Cc:* imstk-developers at imstk.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Imstk-developers] What's the scale for iMSTK?
>
> We don't have specific units! Its up to the user to make sure the inputs
> are self-consistent within the scene.
>
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Milef, Nicholas Boris <milefn at rpi.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Is one unit = 1 meter? Or is it finer than that?
>>
>> Possibly relevant:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17949796/how-many-unique-
>> values-are-there-between-0-and-1-of-a-standard-float
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2978930/how-many-double-
>> numbers-are-there-between-0-0-and-1-0
>>
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> Sreekanth Arikatla, Ph.D.,
> Senior R&D Engineer,
> Kitware, Inc. <http://www.kitware.com>, Carrboro, NC.
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Sreekanth Arikatla, Ph.D.,
Senior R&D Engineer,
Kitware, Inc. <http://www.kitware.com>, Carrboro, NC.
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