Title
Position-based elastic rods
Abstract
We present a novel method to simulate complex bending and twisting of elastic rods. Elastic rods are commonly simulated using force based methods, such as the finite element method. These methods are accurate, but do not directly fit into the more efficient position-based dynamics framework, since the definition of material frames are not entirely based on positions. We introduce ghost points, which are additional points defined on edges, to naturally endow continuous material frames on discretized rods. We achieve robustness by a novel discretization of the Cosserat theory. The method supports coupling with a frame, a triangle, and a rigid body at the rod's end point. Our formulation is highly efficient, capable of simulating hundreds of strands in real-time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.5555/2849517.2849522
Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
design,experimentation,three-dimensional graphics and realism,measurement,computational geometry and object modeling,performance,level of detail,animation,real time rendering
Conference
978-1-4503-3496-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nobuyuki Umetani138222.58
Ryan Schmidt256726.74
Jos Stam320.36