Rope simulator
Investigating the physics behind a rope

 

Rope simulator is a sub-project of Mountain Simulator, which was useful to understand how to correctly model the physics behond the behaviour of a rope.
This ended up in a DLL (Dynamic Link Library, a sort of static program) and a reeeeeeally basic interface made just to show what the whole thing's about.
The concept is that you can simulate a rope with a system of spring-connected masses.
Download is available here.
The snapshot below shows hte UI in action over the library, realtime rendering a rope to which is attached a big mass.