Adding Physics to Animated Characters with Oriented Particles

Müller, Matthias; Chentanez, Nuttapong

Adding Physics to Animated Characters with Oriented Particles

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Date

2011

Authors

Müller, Matthias
Chentanez, Nuttapong

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We present a method to enhance the realism of animated characters by adding physically based secondary motion to deformable parts such as cloth, skin or hair. To this end, we extend the oriented particles approach to incorporate animation information. In addition, we introduce techniques to increase the stability of the original method in order to make it suitable for the fast and sudden motions that typically occur in computer games. We also propose a method for the semi-automatic creation of particle representations from arbitrary visual meshes. This way, our technique allows us to simulate complex geometry such as hair, thick cloth with ornaments and multi-layered clothing, all interacting with each other and the animated character.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/PE/vriphys/vriphys11/083-091
,
booktitle = {Workshop in Virtual Reality Interactions and Physical Simulation "VRIPHYS" (2011)
},
editor = {Jan Bender and Kenny Erleben and Eric Galin
},
title = {{Adding Physics to Animated Characters with Oriented Particles
}},
author = {Müller, Matthias and 
Chentanez, Nuttapong
},
year = {2011
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-905673-87-6
},
DOI = {/10.2312/PE/vriphys/vriphys11/083-091
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}