Tensegrity Modelling

Installing ODE

See here:

1. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cga/ode/

(Do not forget to copy the library and header files as instructed)

2. https://www.ode-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Manual:_Install_and_Use

Installing Python Bindings

1. Install ODE using instructions above, but call ./configure as

./configure --enable-double-precision --with-trimesh=opcode --enable-new-trimesh --enable-shared

2. From the ODE root directory, cd into bindings/python

3. python setup.py install.

Full instructions can be found here at the ODE wiki.

####Troubleshooting

1. You may need to use sudo when you call make install while installing ODE itself.

2. If you receive an error while trying to import ode into python, try running sudo ldconfig

Compiling

g++ tensegrity.cpp -o tensegrity -lode -ldrawstuff -lX11 -lGLU -lGL -lpthread

Download tensegrity and run ./tensegrity to run the compiled demo.

ODE Tutorials

Some good ODE tutorials:

1. http://demura.net/english