Happy New Year all!
My team is working on a kinetic art table for a children’s hospital. It’s designed to accommodate a wheel chair so the table top is cantilevered a bit over the base’s footprint. Given the setting, the question of tipping risk arose. Using estimates for the weights and center of gravities for the top and base, I set things up in GH to evaluate how much load on the front top edge would cause the table to start to tip. This worked well, and an engineer friend’s calcs agreed with my GH results. For fun, starting with a @DanielPiker example, I tried to do a K2 sim of a kid standing on the table (“mommy - look at me!”) and got this:
tippy4 Bow + K2 + man2.gh (133.2 KB)
(Though I don’t need the simulation, I would like to better understand K2’s collider goals. If anyone has some pointers, they’d be greatly apprectiated!)