Newtons cradle1c.gh (14.0 KB)
The more I fall in love with K2, the more I want to understand how it works. Not having the math/coding chops to fully do that, I’ve been using a more empiric / intuitive approach recently, by trying to simulate very simple physics demos to see if I can get results that are close to “real.” My first try, with simple pendulums, failed (period appeared to be mass-dependent). My next experiment was what I now understand to be “Newton’s cradle” (after googling “conservation of momentum demo”). After a lot of fiddling with goal strengths and solver iterations, I got what I wanted. Then I searched on the forum, and found this thread.
Reading again that your focus in developing K2 was on converged, static solutions - am I on the wrong path, hoping it can accurately handle intrinsically dynamic systems?