Evolving Sub-Grid Turbulence for Smoke Animation

We introduce a simple turbulence model for smoke animation, qualitatively capturing the transport, diffusion, and spectral cascade of turbulent energy unresolved on a typical simulation grid. We track the mean kinetic energy per octave of turbulence in each grid cell, and a novel “net rotation” variable for modeling the self-advection of turbulent eddies. These additions […]

Posted by christopherbatty on May 30th, 2008 | Comments Off on Evolving Sub-Grid Turbulence for Smoke Animation Posted in Fluids

Image-based Collision Detection and Response between Arbitrary Volume Objects

We present a new image-based method to process contacts between objects bounded by triangular surfaces. Unlike previous methods, it relies on image-based volume minimization, which eliminates complex geometrical computations and robustly handles deep intersections.  The surfaces are rasterized in three orthogonal directions, and intersections are detected based on pixel depth and normal orientation. Per-pixel contact […]

Posted by christopherbatty on May 30th, 2008 | Comments Off on Image-based Collision Detection and Response between Arbitrary Volume Objects Posted in Collisions, Deformables, Rigid bodies

Robust High-Resolution Cloth using Parallelism, History-Based Collisions and Accurate Friction

In this paper we simulate high resolution cloth consisting of up to 2 million triangles which allows us to achieve highly detailed folds and wrinkles. Since the level of detail is also influenced by object collision and self collision, we propose a more accurate model for cloth-object friction. We also propose a robust history-based repulsion/collision […]

Posted by christopherbatty on May 29th, 2008 | Comments Off on Robust High-Resolution Cloth using Parallelism, History-Based Collisions and Accurate Friction Posted in Cloth, Collisions

A Mass Spring Model for Hair Simulation

Our goal is to simulate the full hair geometry, consisting of ap- proximately one hundred thousand hairs on a typical human head. This will require scalable methods that can simulate every hair as opposed to only a few guide hairs. Novel to this approach is that the individual hair/hair interactions can be modeled with physical […]

Posted by christopherbatty on May 29th, 2008 | 4 Comments Posted in Hair/Rods/Rope

Simulating Knitted Cloth at the Yarn Level

Knitted fabric is widely used in clothing because of its unique and stretchy behavior, which is fundamentally different from the behavior of woven cloth. The properties of knits come from the nonlinear, three-dimensional kinematics of long, inter-looping yarns, and despite significant advances in cloth animation we still do not know how to simulate knitted fabric […]

Posted by christopherbatty on May 29th, 2008 | Comments Off on Simulating Knitted Cloth at the Yarn Level Posted in Cloth

Accurate Viscous Free Surfaces for Buckling, Coiling and Rotating Liquids

We present a fully implicit Eulerian technique for simulating free surface viscous liquids which eliminates artifacts in previous approaches, efficiently supports variable viscosity, and allows the simulation of more compelling viscous behaviour than previously achieved in graphics. Our method exploits a variational principle which automatically enforces the complex boundary condition on the shear stress at […]

Posted by christopherbatty on May 27th, 2008 | Comments Off on Accurate Viscous Free Surfaces for Buckling, Coiling and Rotating Liquids Posted in Fluids

Flexible Simulation of Deformable Models using Discontinuous Galerkin FEM

We propose a simulation technique for elastically deformable objects based on the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG FEM). In contrast to traditional FEM, it overcomes the restrictions of conforming basis functions by allowing for discontinuous elements with weakly enforced continuity constraints. This added flexibility enables the simulation of arbitrarily shaped, convex and non-convex polyhedral […]

Posted by christopherbatty on May 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments Posted in Deformables

Visual Simulation of Shockwaves

We present an efficient method for visual simulations of shock phenomena in compressible, inviscid fluids. Our algorithm is derived from one class of the finite volume method especially designed for capturing shock propagation, but offers improved efficiency through physically-based simplification and adaptation for graphical rendering. Our technique is well suited for parallel implementation on multicore […]

Posted by christopherbatty on May 25th, 2008 | Comments Off on Visual Simulation of Shockwaves Posted in Fluids

Wavelet Turbulence for Fluid Simulation

We present a novel wavelet method for the simulation of fluids at high spatial resolution. The algorithm enables large- and small-scale detail to be edited separately, allowing high-resolution detail to be added as a post-processing step. Instead of solving the Navier-Stokes equations over a highly refined mesh, we use the wavelet decomposition of a low-resolution […]

Posted by christopherbatty on May 22nd, 2008 | 2 Comments Posted in Fluids

Robust Treatment of Simultaneous Collisions

Robust treatment of complex collisions is a challenging problem in cloth simulation. Some state of the art methods resolve collisions iteratively, invoking a fail-safe when a bound on iteration count is exceeded. The best-known fail-safe rigidifies the contact region, causing simulation artifacts. We present a fail-safe that cancels impact but not sliding motion, considerably reducing […]

Posted by christopherbatty on May 19th, 2008 | Comments Off on Robust Treatment of Simultaneous Collisions Posted in Cloth, Collisions
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