GDC Physics Tutorial

The slides for Erwin Coumans’ Game Developers Conference Physics Tutorial on parallel SPU physics are available for download and on-line here: http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/wordpress/uncategorized/gdc-2008-physics-tutorial-on-parallel-game-physics-for-spu They cover parallelizing a typical collision detection and rigid body dynamics pipeline and provide links for further reading. Thanks for Erwin for the link.

Posted by christopherbatty on February 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment Posted in Collisions, Rigid bodies

Phun

Phun is an educational, entertaining and somewhat addictive piece of software for designing and exploring 2D multi-physics simulations in a cartoony fashion. Phun

Posted by christopherbatty on February 21st, 2008 | Comments Off on Phun Posted in Collisions, Fluids, Rigid bodies

Hardware-Aware Analysis and Optimization of Stable Fluids

 We perform a detailed flop and bandwidth analysis of Jos Stam’s Stable Fluids algorithm on the CPU, GPU, and Cell. In all three cases, we find that the algorithm is bandwidth bound, with the cores sitting idle up to 96% of the time. Knowing this, we propose two modifications to accelerate the algorithm. First, a […]

Posted by christopherbatty on February 6th, 2008 | Comments Off on Hardware-Aware Analysis and Optimization of Stable Fluids Posted in Fluids

Fast Collision Detection for Deformable Models using Representative-Triangles

We present a new approach to accelerate collision detection for deformable models. Our formulation applies to all triangulated models and significantly reduces the number of elementary tests between features of the mesh, i.e., vertices, edges and faces. We introduce the notion of Representative-Triangles, standard geometric triangles augmented with mesh feature information and use this representation […]

Posted by christopherbatty on February 6th, 2008 | Comments Off on Fast Collision Detection for Deformable Models using Representative-Triangles Posted in Collisions, Deformables