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Janne Karhu 60ce95f562 New particle collisions code:
* The old collisions code detected particle collisions by calculating the
  collision times analytically from the collision mesh faces. This was
  pretty accurate, but didn't support rotating/deforming faces at all, as
  the equations for these quickly become quite nasty.
* The new code uses a simple "distance to plane/edge/vert" function and
  iterates this with the Newton-Rhapson method to find the closest particle
  distance during a simulation step.
* The advantage in this is that the collision object can now move, rotate,
  scale or even deform freely and collisions are still detected reliably.
* For some extreme movements the calculation errors could stack up so much
  that the detection fails, but this can be easily fixed by increasing the
  particle size or simulation substeps.
* As a side note the algorithm doesn't really do point particles anymore,
  but uses a very small radius as the particle size when "size deflect" isn't
  selected.
* I've also updated the collision response code a bit, so now the particles
  shouldn't leak even from tight corners.

All in all the collisions code is now much cleaner and more robust than before!
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