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 […]

Joshua A. Levine, Adam W. Bargteil, Christopher Corsi, Jerry Tessendorf, Robert Geist  The application of spring-mass systems to the animation of brittle fracture is revisited. The motivation arises from the recent popularity of peridynamics in the computational physics community. Peridynamic systems can be regarded as spring-mass systems with two specific properties. First, spring forces are based on […]

Zhili Chen, Miaojun Yao, Renguo Feng, Huamin Wang Physically based animation of detailed fracture effects is not only computationally expensive, but also difficult to implement due to numerical instability. In this paper, we propose a physics-inspired approach to enrich low-resolution fracture animation by realistic fracture details. Given a custom-designed material strength field, we adaptively refine a coarse fracture […]

Jan Hegemann, Chenfanfu Jiang, Craig Schroeder, Joseph M. Teran We utilize the shape derivative of the classical Griffith’s energy in a level set method for the simulation of dynamic ductile fracture. The level set is defined in the undeformed configuration of the object, and its evolution is designed to represent a transition from undamaged to […]