(Which suggests a unique metaverse twist to the old philosophical conundrum: If a virtual bosom heaves in a Second Life forest, but only you see it on your monitor, does it actually make a jiggle?)Įmerald was already the most popular third party SL viewer before the breast augmentation, but since it was added last week, it's been in even higher demand: 'Downloads for our latest release are over 50,000 already,' Skills Hak tells me. From the world's point of view, however, the breasts have not changed. That means the breast physics are only viewable to someone who's running Second Life with the Emerald viewer, and has enabled that option. 'It's basically just modifying the breast buoyancy slider in realtime, fully client-side,' as Ms. to simply visually show it,' Danny Nolan explains. 'I simply did the math in calculating the physics itself. How does it work? In actuality, a limited form of breast physics already exists in Second Life, but it's only available in the avatar adjustment menu, as a 'buoyancy' option. 'We were discussing the math behind it almost daily, and fixed a lot of bugs it created.' (Trigonometry was brought to bear.) But Emerald's breast physics worked sufficiently well that they were added last week to the viewer latest build. The thing is, when the human breast meets Newtonian mechanics (or a virtual simulation of same), it 'involves quite a bit of math,' as Emerald lead developer Skills Hak puts it. (A bug the Emerald team is still trying to fix.)

Other times, the bouncing motion of the breasts somehow made a giant hole where the chest should be.

In one trial, adjusting the breast physics seemed to create spikes that burst out of a test avatar. So when Danny Nolan and other programmers tried to add realistic physics to avatar breasts as a feature in Emerald, an open source Second Life viewer, they were sometimes stymied in strange ways. The rise and fall of a female breast may seem like the most basic thing, but as it turns out, trying to simulate it in a virtual world is not all that easy. Danny Nolan, breast physics coder inset, the Emerald menu option he pioneered

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