We explore micropolar materials for the simulation of volumetric deformable solids. In graphics, micropolar models have only been used in the form of one-dimensional Cosserat rods, where a rotating frame is attached to ...

Simulating realistic interaction and motions for physics-based characters is of great interest for interactive applications, and automatic secondary character animation in the movie and video game industries. Recent works ...

Photo-real digital human avatars are of enormous importance in graphics, as they enable immersive communication over the globe, improve gaming and entertainment experiences, and can be particularly beneficial for AR and ...

Avatars are important to create interactive and immersive experiences in virtual worlds. One challenge in animating these characters to mimic a user’s motion is that commercial AR/VR products consist only of a headset and ...

This paper introduces a hair simulator optimized for real-time applications, including console and cloud gaming, avatar live-streaming, and metaverse environments. We view the collisions between strands as a mechanism to ...

Efficiently solving large-scale box-constrained convex quadratic programs (QPs) is an important computational challenge in physical simulation.We propose a new multilevel preconditioning scheme based on the active-set ...

We present a method to improve the computation time of thin shell simulations by using adaptive rigidification to reduce the number of degrees of freedom. Our method uses a discretization independent metric for bending ...

We analyze a wide class of penalty energies used for contact response through the lens of a reduced frame. Applying our analysis to both spring-based and barrier-based energies, we show that we can obtain closedform, ...

Virtual reality (VR) allows us to immerse ourselves in alternative worlds in which we can embody avatars to take on new identities. Usually, these avatars are humanoid or possess very strong anthropomorphic qualities. ...

We present a momentum conserving hybrid particle/grid iteration for resolving volumetric elastic collision. Our hybrid method uses implicit time stepping with a Lagrangian finite element discretization of the volumetric ...