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Digital Animation of Power-Snow Avalanches

Filipe Nascimento, Fabricio S. Sousa, Afonso Paiva Powder-snow avalanches are natural phenomena that result from an instability in the snow cover on a mountain relief. It begins with a dense avalanche core moving fast down the mountain. During its evolution, … Continue reading

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Unified Pressure, Surface Tension and Friction for SPH Fluids

Timo Probst, Matthias Teschner, Fluid droplets behave significantly different from larger fluid bodies. At smaller scales, surface tension and friction between fluids and the boundary play an essential role and are even able to counteract gravitational forces. There are quite … Continue reading

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Fast But Accurate: A Real-Time Hyperelastic Simulator with Robust Frictional Contact

Ziqiu Zeng, Siyuan Luo, Fan Shi, Zhongkai Zhang We present a GPU-friendly framework for real-time implicit simulation of elastic material in the presence of frictional contacts. The integration of hyperelasticity, non-interpenetration contact, and friction in real-time simulations presents formidable nonlinear … Continue reading

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Stable Cosserat Rods

Jerry Hsu, Tongtong Wang, Kui Wu, Cem Yuksel Cosserat rods have become an increasingly popular framework for simulating complex bending and twisting in thin elastic rods, used for hair, tree, and yarn-level cloth models. However, traditional approaches often encounter significant … Continue reading

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ANIME-Rod: Adjustable Nonlinear Isotropic Materials for Elastic Rods

Huanyu Chen, Jiahao Wen, Jernej Barbič We give a method to simulate large deformations of 3D elastic rods under arbitrary nonlinear isotropic 3D solid materials. Rod elastic energies in existing graphics literature are derived from volumetric models under the small-strain … Continue reading

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Automated Task Scheduling for Cloth and Deformable Body Simulations in Heterogeneous Computing Environments

Chengzhu He, Zhendong Wang, Zhaorui Meng, Junfeng Yao, Shihui Guo The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) has driven the development of system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology for embedded and mobile systems, which may define the future of next-generation computation. In … Continue reading

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Physics-inspired Estimation of Optimal Cloth Mesh Resolution

Diyang Zhang, Zhendong Wang, Zegao Liu, Xinming Pei, Weiwei Xu In this paper, we tackle an important yet often overlooked question: What is the optimal mesh resolution for cloth simulation, without relying on preliminary simulations? The optimal resolution should be … Continue reading

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StiffGIPC: Advancing GPU IPC for Stiff Affine-Deformable Simulation

Kemeng Huang, Xinyu Lu, Huancheng Lin, Taku Komura, Minchen Li Incremental Potential Contact (IPC) is a widely used, robust, and accurate method for simulating complex frictional contact behaviors. However, achieving high efficiency remains a major challenge, particularly as material stiffness … Continue reading

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A Neural Particle Level Set Method for Dynamic Interface Tracking

Duowen Chen, Junwei Zhou, Bo Zhu We propose a neural particle level set (Neural PLS) method to accommodate tracking and evolving dynamic neural representations. At the heart of our approach is a set of oriented particles serving dual roles of … Continue reading

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Corotational Hinge-based Thin Plates/Shells

Qixin Liang We present six thin plate/shell models, derived from three distinct types of curvature operators formulated within the corotational frame, for simulating both rest-flat and rest-curved triangular meshes. Each curvature operator derives a curvature expression corresponding to both a … Continue reading

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