“Spring-bead Animation of Viscoelastic Materials” by Tamura, Tsumura, Nakaguchi and Miyake
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Title:
- Spring-bead Animation of Viscoelastic Materials
Session/Category Title: Simulations for Artistic Effect
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Abstract:
Polymeric materials such as rubber, fat, oil and egg are known to have viscoelastic characteristics. This sketch presents a method to simulate viscoelastic material using a spring-mass system. A large number of particles (20,000) are used to create a randomly connected mesh that mimics the structure of the polymeric material. The resulting spring-mass system can be simulated efficiently on a graphics processing unit (GPU).
References:
Rouse, P. E., 1953, A Theory of the Linear Viscoelastic Properties of Dilute Solutions of Coiling Polymers, In J. Chem. Phys, 21, 1272.
Lutz, L., 2004, Building a Million Particle System, In Proceedings of GDC2004.
