Fast and Exact Continuous Collision Detection with Bernstein Sign Classification

Min Tang, Ruofeng Tong, Zhendong Wang, Dinesh Manocha We present fast algorithms to perform accurate CCD queries between triangulated models. Our formulation uses properties of the Bernstein basis and Bezier curves and reduces the problem to evaluating signs of polynomials. We present a geometrically exact CCD algorithm based on the exact geometric computation paradigm to […]

Posted by christopherbatty on August 28th, 2014 | Comments Off on Fast and Exact Continuous Collision Detection with Bernstein Sign Classification Posted in Collisions, Deformables

Subspace Clothing Simulation Using Adaptive Bases

Fabian Hahn, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Robert W. Sumner, Forrester Cole, Mark Meyer, Tony DeRose, and Markus Gross We present a new approach to clothing simulation using low-dimensional linear subspaces with temporally adaptive bases. Our method exploits full-space simulation training data in order to construct a pool of low-dimensional bases distributed across pose space. For […]

Posted by christopherbatty on August 16th, 2014 | Comments Off on Subspace Clothing Simulation Using Adaptive Bases Posted in Cloth, Deformables, Shells

Coupling 3D Eulerian, Height Field and Particle Methods for the Simulation of Large Scale Liquid Phenomena

Nuttapong Chentanez, Matthias Mueller, Tae-Yong Kim We propose a new method to simulate large scale water phenomena by combining particle, 3D grid and height field methods. In contrast to most hybrid approaches that use particles to simulate foam and spray only, we also represent the bulk of water near the surface with both particles and a grid […]

Posted by christopherbatty on August 15th, 2014 | Comments Off on Coupling 3D Eulerian, Height Field and Particle Methods for the Simulation of Large Scale Liquid Phenomena Posted in Fluids

An Adaptive Virtual Node Algorithm with Robust Mesh Cutting

Yuting Wang, Chenfanfu Jiang, Craig Schroeder, Joseph Teran We present a novel virtual node algorithm (VNA) for changing tetrahedron mesh topology to represent arbitrary cutting triangulated surfaces. Our approach addresses a number of shortcomings in the original VNA of [MBF04]. First, we generalize the VNA so that cuts can pass through tetrahedron mesh vertices and lie on […]

Posted by christopherbatty on August 15th, 2014 | Comments Off on An Adaptive Virtual Node Algorithm with Robust Mesh Cutting Posted in Deformables, Fracture

Augmented MPM for phase-change and varied materials

Alexey Stomakhin, Craig Schroeder, Chenfanfu Jiang, Lawrence Chai, Joseph Teran, Andrew Selle In this paper, we introduce a novel material point method for heat transport, melting and solidifying materials. This brings a wider range of material behaviors into reach of the already versatile material point method. This is in contrast to best-of-breed fluid, solid or rigid body solvers that […]

Posted by christopherbatty on August 15th, 2014 | Comments Off on Augmented MPM for phase-change and varied materials Posted in Deformables, Fluids

Optimization Integrator for Large Time Steps

Theodore F. Gast, Craig Schroeder Practical time steps in today’s state-of-the-art simulators typically rely on Newton’s method to solve large systems of nonlinear equations. In practice, this works well for small time steps but is unreliable at large time steps at or near the frame rate, particularly for difficult or stiff simulations. We show that […]

Posted by christopherbatty on August 2nd, 2014 | Comments Off on Optimization Integrator for Large Time Steps Posted in Collisions, Deformables

Sensitivity-optimized Rigging for Example-based Real-Time Clothing Synthesis

Weiwei Xu, Noboyuki Umetani, Qianwen Chao, Jie Mao, Xiaogang Jin, Xin Tong We present a real-time solution for generating detailed clothing deformations from pre-computed clothing shape examples. Given an input pose, it synthesizes a clothing deformation by blending skinned clothing deformations of nearby examples controlled by the body skeleton. Observing that cloth deformation can be well modeled with sensitivity analysis […]

Posted by christopherbatty on August 2nd, 2014 | Comments Off on Sensitivity-optimized Rigging for Example-based Real-Time Clothing Synthesis Posted in Cloth