Mixing Deformable and Rigid-Body Mechanics Simulation

This article presents a new method to achieve heterogeneous physical simulation, within the same global system, of both deformable and rigid-bodies objects, whatever their intrinsic nature. The proposed approach combines several mechanical formalism in the same system and offers a common constraint management via Lagrange multipliers. This allows the simulation of a wide variety of models, including deformable and rigid parts linked by constraints. Some applications of this approach are presented to show its effectiveness.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CGI
• Authors: Julien Lenoir, Sylvère Fonteneau
• Keywords: Approach Combines, CGI 2004, Common Constraint Management, Computer Graphics, Heterogeneous Physical Simulation