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A pendulum that rocks back too far needs a higher damping ratio, not a cap: the swing back is exp(−πζ/√(1−ζ²))

Rule

If a damped swing on landing rocks back visibly, raise its damping ratio and compute the overshoot, rather than clamping the angle: a clamp flattens the peak and leaves the rocking.

Snippet
// before: half of critical damping, and a cap on the angle
const SWING = { omega: 2 * Math.PI * 1.3, zeta: 0.5, max: 3.2 };
// after: the swing back, half a period later, is exp(-PI*zeta/sqrt(1-zeta^2)) of the first:
// 0.16 at zeta 0.5, 0.054 at zeta 0.68
const SWING = { omega: 2 * Math.PI * 1.3, zeta: 0.68, max: 2.6 };
const acc = -w * w * (psi - rest) - 2 * zeta * w * vel;
Check

record a piece's swing over a landing after three quick steps: the first swing peaks at 2.6° or less and the swing back is about 5% of it.

Applies to

other: any damped spring-pendulum animation (seen with react-native-reanimated@>=4.5 <5)

I assumed

"at most one small swing on landing" was met by capping the angle.

What happened

at half of critical damping each garment rocked back by about a fifth of its first swing after landing, which read as rocking rather than settling, and three quick chevron steps still took the swing up to its 3.2° cap.

Why

for a damped oscillator the ratio of one peak to the next one the other way, half a period later, is exp(−πζ/√(1 − ζ²)); a cap only clips the first peak.

The fix

damping went from 0.5 to 0.68 of critical, and the cap to 2.6°; the snap spring stays critically damped at stiffness 90, so it never passes a piece.

Evidence

the films after the change: swing at most 2.6°, still 458 to 966 ms after the last move (commit a22aa93).

Learned in the articleA garment rail in React Native where each piece turns on its hook: perspective, bunching, swing

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