Assembly planning and evaluation is an important component of the product design process
in which details about how parts of a new product will be put together are formalized. A well …

A distance field is a representation where, at each point within the field, we know the
distance from that point to the closest point on any object within the domain. In addition to …

We present a unified dynamics framework for real-time visual effects. Using particles
connected by constraints as our fundamental building block allows us to treat contact and …

In computational science and computer graphics, there is a strong requirement to represent
and visualize information in the real domain, and many visualization data structures and …

We present a physics-based simulation method for animating sand. To allow for efficiently
scaling up to large volumes of sand, we abstract away the individual grains and think of the …

Simulations of rigid objects with contact resolution and friction are ubiquitous in computer
graphics and robotics. Rigid body models do not deform. Equipped with just rotational and …

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 …

This paper introduces an approach to control of physics-based characters based on high-
level features of movement, such as center-of-mass, angular momentum, and end-effectors …

Physical simulation has emerged as a compelling animation technique, yet current
approaches to coupling simulations of fluids and solids with irregular boundary geometry …

This paper reviews the state-of-the-art methodologies for develo** computer-aided design
(CAD) model based systems for assembly simulation, planning and training. Methods for …