Farseer Physics Engine
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The Farseer Physics Engine is an open source
physics engine
for the Microsoft .NET platform. They have official releases for Silverlight as well as Microsoft XNA
, but also a general purpose class library. It provides a number of physics related tools to support gravity, force, torque, collisions, springs and joints. As of this writing, it is the most comprehensive open source physics engine available for Silverlight.
The Farseer Physics Engine was created by Jeff Weber, but is now maintained by Ian Qvist.
Open source
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physics engine
Physics engine
A physics engine is computer software that provides an approximate simulation of certain physical systems, such as rigid body dynamics , soft body dynamics, and fluid dynamics, of use in the domains of computer graphics, video games and film. Their main uses are in video games , in which case the...
for the Microsoft .NET platform. They have official releases for Silverlight as well as Microsoft XNA
XNA
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, but also a general purpose class library. It provides a number of physics related tools to support gravity, force, torque, collisions, springs and joints. As of this writing, it is the most comprehensive open source physics engine available for Silverlight.
The Farseer Physics Engine was created by Jeff Weber, but is now maintained by Ian Qvist.