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Primal/Dual Descent Methods for Dynamics

本文提出了一种新的预处理摩擦接触求解器，该求解器与现有的原始优化方法兼容，并且在与对偶方法相比时生成了更好的接触力分布，具有可微性，非常适合轨迹优化。通过从共同的变分观点推导出原始和对偶方法，并对两种方法进行了全面的数值分析，证明了该方法在刚体接触、可变形模拟和机器人操作等场景中的有效性。

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A Multilevel Active-Set Preconditioner for Box-Constrained Pressure Poisson Solvers

The paper "A Multilevel Active-Set Preconditioner for Box-Constrained Pressure Poisson Solvers" by Tetsuya Takahashi and Christopher Batty introduces a novel multilevel preconditioning scheme that efficiently solves large-scale box-constrained convex quadratic programs (QPs). This solution is particularly effective for pressure Poisson equations with non-negative pressure constraints in fluid animation, enhancing the realism and dynamism of fluid simulations.

Basic Information

  • Title: A Multilevel Active-Set Preconditioner for Box-Constrained Pressure Poisson Solvers
  • Authors: Tetsuya Takahashi, Christopher Batty
  • Affiliations: Unaffiliated, USA; University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Year: 2023
  • Conference/Journal: Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech.
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3606939

Introduction

  • Problem Addressed: Challenges in enforcing fluid incompressibility with separating solid boundary conditions in grid-based fluid simulation.
  • Approach: A new multilevel active-set preconditioning scheme, combined with modified proportioning with reduced gradient projections (MPRGP), to efficiently solve box-constrained convex QPs.
  • Significance: Enhances the realism of liquid behaviors in simulations while addressing computational inefficiencies of existing methods.

Overview

  • Method Summary: The method employs a smoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid (SAAMG) approach to establish a hierarchy for efficient preconditioning, focusing on solving large-scale sparse QPs for fluid animation with non-negative pressure constraints.
  • Performance: Demonstrates improved efficiency and effectiveness in handling complex fluid simulation scenarios compared to existing approaches.

Summary

  • Contributions:
  • Introduction of a multilevel active-set preconditioning scheme for efficiently solving box-constrained pressure Poisson equations.
  • Utilization of SAAMG for establishing coarser levels and enhancing the preconditioner's performance.
  • Implementation of a filtering scheme for applying preconditioning only to unconstrained subsystems.

Contribution Revisited

  • The paper offers a novel solution to a key challenge in fluid simulation, significantly improving the realism and performance of fluid simulations in graphical applications.
  • Discusses prior work in multigrid methods for fluid simulation, the challenges of separating solid boundary conditions, and various approaches for solving box-constrained QPs and linear complementarity problems (LCPs).

Limitation and Future Work

  • Limitations: The method focuses on fluid simulations with simple geometries and does not address more complex interactions, such as hair-clothing interactions.
  • Future Directions: Expanding the method to more complex simulation scenarios and exploring further optimizations for the preconditioning scheme.

Details, Techniques, and Method

  • Detailed explanation of the SAAMG preconditioning strategy, including the construction of the hierarchy, the active-set approach, and specific optimizations for the GPU implementation.

Experiments and Conclusion

  • The experiments demonstrate the method's effectiveness across various fluid simulation scenarios, showcasing significant improvements over existing methods. The conclusion emphasizes the potential of this approach for real-time applications and its impact on the field of fluid simulation.

This paper presents a significant advancement in the simulation of fluids, offering a computationally efficient method that can be utilized in real-time applications, such as gaming and virtual environments, to produce more realistic and dynamic simulations.

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Towards Realtime: A Hybrid Physics-based Method for Hair Animation on GPU

Basic Information

  • Title: Towards Realtime: A Hybrid Physics-based Method for Hair Animation on GPU
  • Authors: Li Huang, Fan Yang, Chendi Wei, Yu Ju (Edwin) Chen, Chun Yuan, Ming Gao
  • Affiliations: Digital Content Technology Center, Tencent Games
  • Year: 2023
  • Conference/Journal: SCA’23, Aug 04–06 2023, Los Angeles, CA
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3606937

Introduction

  • Problem Addressed: Real-time hair simulation challenges in terms of computational efficiency, particularly for collision detection and resolution.
  • Approach: The paper introduces a hybrid physics-based method leveraging the Material Point Method (MPM) for collision resolution and a semi-implicit Discrete Elastic Rods (DER) model for simulating individual hair strand dynamics, optimized for GPU execution.
  • Significance: Offers a balance between physical accuracy and computational efficiency, achieving real-time performance with realistic hair dynamics.

Overview

  • Method Summary: Combines explicit MPM for handling hair volume preservation and strand-strand collision with semi-implicit DER for individual strand behavior, enhanced by GPU optimization for real-time performance.
  • Performance: Demonstrated up to 260 frames per second with realistic simulation of over two thousand hair strands on an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 GPU.

Summary

  • Contributions:
  • A hybrid method combining MPM and DER for hair simulation.
  • GPU optimization techniques for efficient real-time performance.
  • A stability enhancement strategy for dynamic simulations.
  • Key Techniques:
  • Utilization of explicit MPM for collision resolution.
  • Semi-implicit DER model for simulating strand dynamics.
  • GPU optimizations for efficient computation.

Contribution Revisited

  • The method achieves faster-than-real-time performance in hair animation on consumer-grade GPUs, making it practical for real-time applications.
  • The approach significantly reduces the computational burden of hair simulation while preserving physical accuracy.
  • The paper discusses previous methods in hair simulation, including mass-spring models and various continuum methods, highlighting their limitations in real-time applications due to computational inefficiency.

Limitation and Future Work

  • Limitations

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  • Primarily focuses on hair collision with simple geometries (capsules) without addressing hair-clothing interactions.

  • Computational cost of the DER model may still be prohibitive for certain applications.

  • Future Directions

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  • Extend the hybrid method to cloth simulation.
  • Improve boundary condition modeling for more complex interactions.
  • Explore adaptation to other parallel computing platforms beyond CUDA.

Details, Techniques, and Method

  • Details the hybrid simulation approach, describing the implementation of MPM and DER on GPUs, and the optimization strategies for real-time performance.
  • Introduces a stability test for evaluating the robustness of the simulation under dynamic conditions.

Experiments and Conclusion

  • Demonstrates the effectiveness of the method through various scenarios, including dancing characters and comparison with existing commercial tools, showing superior performance and visual quality.
  • The method’s real-time capabilities and visual realism are highlighted as key achievements, with further optimizations and platform adaptations suggested for future research.
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Real2Sim: Visco-elastic parameter estimation from dynamic motion

从动态运动中估计粘弹性参数

本文提出了一种从真实世界的软物体的动态运动中优化粘弹性材料参数的方法，通过直接敏感性分析或伴随状态方法计算材料参数的梯度，并优化材料参数以使模拟运动尽可能接近真实观测。通过这种方式，我们可以直接构建一个能够捕捉感兴趣样本的粘弹性行为的有用模拟模型。我们在各种示例中展示了我们方法的有效性，包括数值粗化、自定义目标函数以及由泡沫或3D打印格子结构制成的真实柔性弹性物体，包括软体机器人的演示应用。

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Fluidic Topology Optimization with an Anisotropic Mixture Model

提出了一种新的拓扑优化方法，用于在Stokes流环境中设计流体装置。我们的方法的特点是能够适应固体-流体界面的广泛边界条件。

主要贡献是各向异性和可微分本构模型，该模型统一了斯托克斯模型中不同相和边界条件的表示，从而实现了拓扑优化方法，该方法可以从背景网格离散化中合成具有精确边界条件的新结构。