Michael Sherman

> I'm a noob regarding github and travis CI. How do I merge my branch into the master? The general GitHub ethic is that no one merges their own PR...

Hi, Daniel. We just finished creating a set of contributor's instructions specifically for Simbody. Since you happen to have a nice big contribution pending, it would be great if you...

Hi, Daniel. We just got the Simbody 3.5 release out today so I took a look at the superellipsoid code you submitted. Probably the biggest issue right now is that...

> Well, my plan is to implement superellipsoids in Simbody, so count me in > for this Great! Glad to hear that, Daniel.

Strange. `glutInit()` is called first in `main()` of simbody-visualizer -- you can see it [here](https://github.com/simbody/simbody/blob/master/Simbody/Visualizer/simbody-visualizer/simbody-visualizer.cpp#L2731). The only unusual thing I see here is the 32-bit Ubuntu. I suspect it has...

Thank you for the detailed report! Once concern I have is that OpenSim is still using the deprecated ElasticFoundationForce element, rather than the preferred implementation as a ContactForceGenerator (see [CompliantContactSubsystem.cpp:1824](https://github.com/simbody/simbody/blob/master/Simbody/src/CompliantContactSubsystem.cpp#L1824)...

BTW although Simbody's ElasticFoundation models require fairly dense meshes to give reasonable behavior, we have recently developed a new method ("Pressure Field Contact") which is far better and gives smooth...

I'm not sure this is right. getRank() is at least _logically_ const. Why do you want to change it?

I'm confused -- how was it compiling at all before then?

This isn't right, Chris. In Simbody `const` is used to indicate the _logical_ meaning of the method, that is, whether it modifies the internal state, not the particulars of the...