This paper describes a method for modeling surface contacts using relative coordinates.
@Article{Faure:1995:MCCFAO,
author = "Fran\c{c}ois Faure",
title = "A Kinematic Contact Model for Articulated Structures
{\em (in French)}",
journal = "Revue Internationale de CFAO et d'Informatique
Graphique",
volume = "11",
number = "4",
year = "1996",
}
François Faure
Institut für Computergrafik, Technische Universität Wien
francois@cg.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~francois/Public/Work/index.html