View source for Representing surfaces beams wires

= Surface triangulation and filling =
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Sphere packing (regular) is generated to fit inside the horse-shaped triangulated surface (imported from file). The same horse is the used underneath, on which the spheres fall from above. Script is [http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~yade-dev/yade/trunk/annotate/1744/scripts/test/gts-horse.py here]
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= Representing beams, wires, grids, with connected cylinders =
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Connected cylinders with rounded ends (alternatively seen as Minkowski sum of a polyline and a sphere) enables simulation of wires or rods interacting with particles, with a smooth interface. On the left-hand side (top), a spring represented by connected cylinders ([https://github.com/yade/trunk/blob/master/examples/test/chained-cylinder/chained-cylinder-spring.py this script]), the end of the spring is dragged away with the mouse in the middle of the simulation, then released. On the right-hand side, the simulation defined in [https://github.com/yade/trunk/blob/master/examples/test/chained-cylinder/chained-cylinder-roots.py this script]. The last videos shows how the cylinders can be used to modelize nets.

= Modelling wires and meshes with remote interactions =
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Simulation of an impact on a horizontal spanned double-twisted hexagonal wire mesh, as used in rockfall protection, with remote interactions ([https://www.yade-dem.org/doc/publications.html#journal-articles Thoeni et al. 2013]). Example scripts are provided [https://github.com/yade/trunk/tree/master/examples/WireMatPM here].
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