2 SOLID - Software Library for Interference Detection
4 SOLID is a software library containing functions for performing
5 intersection tests and proximity queries that are useful in the context
6 of collision detection. Collision detection is the process of detecting
7 pairs of geometric objects that are intersecting or are within a given
8 proximity of each other. In particular, SOLID is useful for detecting
9 collisions between objects that are moving relatively of each other over
10 time. The motions of objects are controlled by the client application,
11 and are not determined or affected by SOLID.
13 This open-source edition of SOLID version 3 is released under the terms of
14 either the GNU Public License (GPL) or the Q Public License (QPL). This means
15 that for software created with SOLID version 3 you must comply with the terms
16 of one of these licenses. You may choose wich of these licenses best suits
17 your purpose. See the following files contained in this distribution for a
18 complete list of terms and conditions of these licenses:
20 LICENSE_QPL.txt The Q Public License
21 LICENSE_GPL.txt The GNU General Public License
23 These licenses do not permit the use of SOLID 3 in closed-source software
24 products. For enquiries about commercial use of SOLID, please contact
27 SOLID 3 uses Qhull from The Geometry Center of the University of Minnesota.
28 Qhull is copyrighted as noted below. Qhull is free software and may be
29 obtained via anonymous ftp from geom.umn.edu.
31 Qhull, Copyright (c) 1993-2002
33 The National Science and Technology Research Center for
34 Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures
36 University of Minnesota
38 207 Church Street S.E.
39 Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
41 email: qhull@geom.umn.edu
45 For details on how to install SOLID see the documention in the 'doc' directory.
49 SOLID 3 has been tested on the following platforms:
51 Linux IA32 gcc 2.95.3, gcc 3.3
52 Win32 MSVC++ 6.0 SP4, MSVC++ 7.1