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The properties of the matter density field in the initial conditions have a decisive impact on the features of the large-scale structure of the Universe as observed today. These need to be studied via $N$-body simulations, which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Jazhiel Chacón , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , Ricardo Menchaca Méndez , José Alberto Vázquez

We present a method for reconstructing high-quality meshes of large unbounded real-world scenes suitable for photorealistic novel view synthesis. We first optimize a hybrid neural volume-surface scene representation designed to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Lior Yariv , Peter Hedman , Christian Reiser , Dor Verbin , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Richard Szeliski , Jonathan T. Barron , Ben Mildenhall

Current models of galaxy formation applied to understanding the large-scale structure of the universe have two parts. The first is an accurate solution of the equations of motion for the dark matter due to gravitational clustering. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth

Computationally weak systems and demanding graphical applications are still mostly dependent on linear blendshapes for facial animations. The accompanying artifacts such as self-intersections, loss of volume, or missing soft tissue…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Nicolas Wagner , Ulrich Schwanecke , Mario Botsch

Adaptive SPH and N-body simulations were carried out to study the evolution of the equilibrium structure of dark matter halos that result from the gravitational instability and fragmentation of cosmological pancakes. Such halos resemble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Marcelo Alvarez , Paul R. Shapiro , Hugo Martel

High-quality view synthesis relies on volume rendering, splatting, or surface rendering. While surface rendering is typically the fastest, it struggles to accurately model fuzzy geometry like hair. In turn, alpha-blending techniques excel…

Physics simulation is paramount for modeling and utilizing 3D scenes in various real-world applications. However, integrating with state-of-the-art 3D scene rendering techniques such as Gaussian Splatting (GS) remains challenging. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Piotr Borycki , Weronika Smolak , Joanna Waczyńska , Marcin Mazur , Sławomir Tadeja , Przemysław Spurek

We present a detailed description and validation of our massively-parallel update to the mass-Peak Patch method, a fully predictive initial-space algorithm to quickly generate dark matter halo catalogues in very large cosmological volumes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 George Stein , Marcelo A. Alvarez , J. Richard Bond

Numerical simulations are becoming a more effective tool for conducting detailed investigations into the evolution of our universe. In this article, we show how the framework of numerical relativity can be used for studying cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-13 David Garrison

The theory of structure formation predicts that galaxies form within extended massive dark matter halos built from smaller pieces that collided and merged, resulting in the hierarchy of galaxies, groups, and clusters observed today. Here we…

A grand challenge of the 21st century cosmology is to accurately estimate the cosmological parameters of our Universe. A major approach to estimating the cosmological parameters is to use the large-scale matter distribution of the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Junier Oliva , Sebastien Fromenteau , Layne C. Price , Shirley Ho , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

Modelling gravity is a fundamental problem that must be tackled in N-body simulations of stellar systems, and satisfactory solutions require a deep understanding of the dynamical effects of softening. In a previous paper (Romeo 1997), we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro B. Romeo

We describe the construction of an N-body simulation that mimics the true velocity and mass-density fields in a box of side 256\hmpc about the Local Group , and the production of mock catalogs that mimic in detail current catalogs of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Tsafrir Kolatt , Avishai Dekel , Galit Ganon , Jeffrey Willick

We present the results of weak gravitational lensing statistics in four different cosmological $N$-body simulations. The data has been generated using an algorithm for the three-dimensional shear, which makes use of a variable softening…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew J. Barber , Peter A. Thomas , H. M. P. Couchman , C. J. Fluke

We report the results of the first study of the multi-stream environment of dark matter haloes in cosmological N-body simulations in the LCDM cosmology. The full dynamical state of dark matter can be described as a three-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-22 Nesar S. Ramachandra , Sergei F. Shandarin

The set-up of the initial conditions in cosmological N-body simulations is usually implemented by rescaling the desired low-redshift linear power spectrum to the required starting redshift consistently with the Newtonian evolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Matteo Zennaro , Julien Bel , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Carmelita Carbone , Emiliano Sefusatti , Luigi Guzzo

In this work we study the relevance of the cosmic web and substructures on the matter and lensing power spectra measured from halo mock catalogues extracted from the N-body simulations. Since N-body simulations are computationally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Francesco Pace , Marc Manera , David J. Bacon , Robert Crittenden , Will J. Percival

Numerical simulations play a key important role in modern cosmology. Examples are plenty including the cosmic web - large scale structure of the distribution of galaxies in space - which was first observed in N-body simulations and later…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Johan Comparat

We present a scheme to extend the halo mass resolution of N-body simulations of the hierarchical clustering of dark matter. The method uses the density field of the simulation to predict the number of sub-resolution dark matter haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Raul E. Angulo , Carlton M. Baugh , Carlos S. Frenk , Cedric G. Lacey

The current status of numerical simulations of galaxy formation is reviewed. After a short description of the main numerical simulation techniques, three sample applications illustrate how numerical simulations have provided deeper insight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Matthias Steinmetz