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Monthly Archives: September 2021
I❤️LA: Compilable Markdown for Linear Algebra
Yong Li, Shoaib Kamil, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold Communicating linear algebra in written form is challenging: mathematicians must choose between writing in languages that produce well-formatted but semantically-underdefined representations such as LaTeX; or languages with well-defined semantics but notation unlike … Continue reading
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Interactive Cutting and Tearing in Projective Dynamics with Progressive Cholesky Updates
Jing Li, Tiantian Liu, Ladislav Kavan, Baoquan Chen We propose a new algorithm for updating a Cholesky factorization which speeds up Projective Dynamics simulations with topological changes. Our approach addresses an important limitation of the original Projective Dynamics, i.e., that … Continue reading
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A Material Point Method for Nonlinearly Magnetized Materials
Yuchen Sun*, Xingyu Ni*, Bo Zhu, Bin Wang, Baoquan Chen We propose a novel numerical scheme to simulate interactions between a magnetic field and nonlinearly magnetized objects immersed in it. Under our nonlinear magnetization framework, the strength of magnetic forces is effectively saturated to … Continue reading
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Weatherscapes: Nowcasting Heat Transfer and Water Continuity
J. A. Amador Herrera, T. Hädrich, W. Pałubicki, D. T. Banuti, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels. Due to the complex interplay of various meteorological phenomena, simulating weather is a challenging and open research problem. In this contribution, we propose a … Continue reading
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Predicting High-Resolution Turbulence Details in Space and Time
Kai Bai, Chunhao Wang, Mathieu Desbrun, Xiaopei Liu Predicting the fine and intricate details of a turbulent flow field in both space and time from a coarse input remains a major challenge despite the availability of modern machine learning tools. … Continue reading
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Fast and Versatile Fluid-Solid Coupling for Turbulent Flow Simulation
Chaoyang Lyu, Wei Li, Mathieu Desbrun, Xiaopei Liu The intricate motions and complex vortical structures generated by the interaction between fluids and solids are visually fascinating. However, reproducing such a two-way coupling between thin objects and turbulent fluids numerically is … Continue reading
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SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
Fast and Versatile Fluid-Solid Coupling for Turbulent Flow Simulation Predicting High-Resolution Turbulence Details in Space and Time Weatherscapes: Nowcasting Heat Transfer and Water Continuity Ships, Splashes, and Waves on a Vast Ocean A Material Point Method for Nonlinearly Magnetized Materials … Continue reading
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Particle Merging-and-Splitting
Nghia Truong, Cem Yuksel, Chakrit Watcharopas, Joshua A. Levine, Robert M. Kirby Robustly handling collisions between individual particles in a large particle-based simulation has been a challenging problem. We introduce particle merging-and-splitting, a simple scheme for robustly handling collisions between … Continue reading
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Visual Simulation of Soil-Structure Destruction with Seepage Flows
Xu Wang, Makoto Fujisawa, Masahiko Mikawa This paper introduces a method for simulating soil-structure coupling with water, which involves a series of visual effects, including wet granular materials, seepage flows, capillary action between grains, and dam breaking simulation. We develop … Continue reading
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Neural UpFlow: A Scene Flow Learning Approach to Increase the Apparent Resolution of Particle-Based Liquids
Bruno Roy, Pierre Poulin, Eric Paquette We present a novel up-resing technique for generating high-resolution liquids based on scene flow estimation using deep neural networks. Our approach infers and synthesizes small- and large-scale details solely froma low-resolution particle-based liquid simulation. … Continue reading
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