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Pressure Model of Soft Body Simulation

Computational Physics 2007-05-23 v1 Physics Education

Abstract

Motivated by existing models used for soft body simulation which are rather complex to implement, we present a novel technique which is based on simple laws of physics and gives high quality results in real-time. We base the implementation on simple thermodynamics laws and use the Clausius-Clapeyron state equation for pressure calculation. In addition, this provides us with a pressure force that is accumulated into a force accumulator of a 3D mesh object by using an existing spring-mass engine. Finally after integration of Newtons second law we obtain the behavior of a soft body with fixed or non-fixed air pressure inside of it.

Cite

@article{arxiv.physics/0407003,
  title  = {Pressure Model of Soft Body Simulation},
  author = {Matyka Maciej and Ollila Mark},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0407003},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, 8 figures, conference - SIGRAD 2003, Umea, Sweden