Interactive rigid body simulation is an important part of many modern computer tools, which
no authoring tool nor game engine can do without. Such high‐performance computer tools …

Colliding billiard balls. Missile trajectories. Cornering dynamics in speeding cars. By
applying the laws of physics, you can realistically model nearly everything in games that …

6,167,145 A 12/2000 Foley et al. steps of defining a first object and a second object, each
object 6,195,625 B1* 2/2001 Day et al....................... 703/7 adapted for colliding with the other …

Rigid body dynamics with contact constraints can be solved locally using linear
complementarity techniques. However, these techniques do not impose the original …

To put this dissertation in a proper perspective, I feel it is important to give a little insight into
my background history and motivation for working in the field of physicsbased animation. As …

This paper proposes a new method for real-time rigid body simulations for haptic interfaces
based on contact volume. Analytical methods for calculations of contact forces take too much …

Physically based modeling is increasingly gaining acceptance within the computer graphics
and mechanical engineering industries as a way of achiev ing realistic animations and …

Braking dynamics plays an essential role in ensuring the comfort and running safety of
trains. Due to the complexity of the phenomena involved and the presence of dry friction …

Impacts are instantaneous, computationally efficient approximations of collisions. Current
impact models sacrifice important physical principles to achieve that efficiency, yielding …

Computation of contact points is a critical sub-component of physics-based animation. The
success and correctness of simulation results are very sensitive to the quality of the contact …