Cable Joints

Matthias Müller, Nuttapong Chentanez, Stefan Jeschke, Miles Macklin Robustly and efficiently simulating cables and ropes that are part of a larger system such as cable driven machines, cable cars or tendons in a human or robot is a challenging task. To be able to adapt to the environment, cables are typically modeled as a large […]

HairControl: A Tracking Solution for Directable Hair Simulation

Antoine Milliez, Bob Sumner, Markus Gross, Bernhard Thomaszewski We present a method for adding artistic control to physics-based hair simulation. Taking as input an animation of a coarse set of guide hairs, we constrain a subsequent higher-resolution simulation of detail hairs to follow the input motion in a spatially-averaged sense. The resulting high-resolution motion adheres […]

Cosserat Rods with Projective Dynamics

Carlota Soler, Tobias Martin, Olga Sorkine-Hornung We present a novel method to simulate Cosserat rods with Projective Dynamics (PD). The proposed method is both numerically robust and accurate with respect to the underlying physics, making it suitable for a variety of applications in computer graphics and related disciplines. Cosserat theory assigns an orientation frame to […]

Stitch Meshing

Kui Wu, Xifeng Gao, Zachary Ferguson, Daniele Panozzo, Cem Yuksel We introduce the first fully automatic pipeline to convert arbitrary 3D shapes into knit models. Our pipeline is based on a global parametrization remeshing pipeline to produce an isotropic quad-dominant mesh aligned with a 2-RoSy field. The knitting directions over the surface are determined using […]

A Skinned Tetrahedral Mesh for Hair Animation and Hair-Water Interaction

Minjae Lee, David Hyde, Michael Bao, Ronald Fedkiw We propose a novel framework for hair animation as well as hair-water interaction that supports millions of hairs. First, we develop a hair animation framework that embeds hair into a tetrahedralized volume mesh that we kinematically skin to deform and follow the exterior of an animated character. […]

Direct Position-Based Solver for Stiff Rods

Crispin Deul, Tassilo Kugelstadt, Marcel Weiler, Jan Bender In this paper, we present a novel direct solver for the efficient simulation of stiff, inextensible elastic rods within the Position-Based Dynamics (PBD) framework. It is based on the XPBD algorithm, which extends PBD to simulate elastic objects with physically meaningful material parameters. XPBD approximates an implicit […]

A Stiffly Accurate Integrator for Elastodynamic Problems

Dominik L. Michels, Vu Thai Luan, Mayya Tokman We present a new integration algorithm for the accurate and efficient solution of stiff elastodynamic problems governed by the second-order ordinary differential equations of structural mechanics. Current methods have the shortcoming that their performance is highly dependent on the numerical stiffness of the underlying system that often […]

Simulation-Ready Hair Capture

Liwen Hu, Derek Bradley, Hao Li, Thabo Beeler Physical simulation has long been the approach of choice for generating realistic hair animations in CG. A constant drawback of simulation, however, is the necessity to manually set the physical parameters of the simulation model in order to get the desired dynamic behavior. To alleviate this, researchers […]

A Multi-Scale Model for Simulating Liquid-Hair Interactions

Yun (Raymond) Fei, Henrique Teles Maia, Christopher Batty, Changxi Zheng, Eitan Grinspun The diverse interactions between hair and liquid are complex and span multiple length scales, yet are central to the appearance of humans and animals in many situations. We therefore propose a novel multi-component simulation framework that treats many of the key physical mechanisms […]

Interactive Modeling and Authoring of Climbing Plants

Torsten Hädrich, Bedrich Benes, Oliver Deussen, Sören Pirk We present a novel system for the interactive modeling of developmental climbing plants with an emphasis on efficient control and plausible physics response. A plant is represented by a set of connected anisotropic particles that respond to the surrounding environment and to their inner state. Each particle […]