Title
Air meshes for robust collision handling
Abstract
We propose a new method for both collision detection and collision response geared towards handling complex deformable objects in close contact. Our method does not miss collision events between time steps and solves the challenging problem of untangling automatically and robustly. It is conceptually simple and straight forward to parallelize due to the regularity of the algorithm. The main idea is to tessellate the air between objects once before the simulation and by considering one unilateral constraint per element that prevents its inversion during the simulation. If large relative rotations and translations are present in the simulation, an additional dynamic mesh optimization step is needed to prevent mesh locking. This step is fast in 2D and allows the simulation of arbitrary scenes. Because mesh optimization is expensive in 3D, however, the method is best suited for the subclass of 3D scenarios in which relative motions are limited. This subclass contains two important problems, namely the simulation of multi-layered clothing and tissue on animated characters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2766907
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Keywords
Field
DocType
collision detection,mesh optimization
Mathematical optimization,Mesh optimization,Collision detection,Polygon mesh,Computer science,Inversion (meteorology),Collision,Dynamic mesh,Collision response
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34
4
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.56
40
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Muller12726122.09
Nuttapong Chentanez267538.02
Tae-Yong Kim350426.69
Miles Macklin424817.11