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Re:Show HN: Ball falls on the teapot in WebGL by chc on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:01PM (#12313555)
Why would the results of floating point math be inconsistent between consecutive runs of the same program?
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Re:Show HN: Ball falls on the teapot in WebGL by edvinbesic on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:10PM (#12313676)
Hmm, good point. Probably rules that out you're right.

Maybe it's the way the timer is handled when computing the physics, since they would have to compute the deltas based on previous step and the timers in JS are not exact maybe they are producing slightly different deltas between frames accumulating to the difference.

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