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Physical cloth simulation on a PC cluster

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J-M. VincentAuthors Info & Claims

EGPGV '02: Proceedings of the Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization

Pages 105 - 112

Published: 09 September 2002 Publication History

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Cloth simulation is of major interest in 3D animation, as it allows the realistic modeling of dressed humans. The goal of our work is to decrease computation time in order to obtain real time dynamics animation. This paper describes a cloth simulation and addresses the problem of parallelizing the implicit time integration and to couple a parallel execution with a standard visualization. We believe that this work could benefit to other applications based on a conjugate gradient solution and other applications of PC clusters.

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Physical cloth simulation on a PC cluster
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EGPGV '02: Proceedings of the Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization

September 2002

151 pages

ISBN:1581135793

Conference Chair:
Dirk Bartz
University of Tubingen
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Universitat de Girona
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University of Utah

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Thomaszewski BPabst SBlochinger W(2007)Exploiting parallelism in physically-based simulations on multi-core processor architecturesProceedings of the 7th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization10.5555/2386154.2386165(69-76)Online publication date: 20-May-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2386154.2386165
Oliva CRose C(2005)Modeling Particle Systems Animations for Heterogeneous ClustersProceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 13 - Volume 1410.1109/IPDPS.2005.292Online publication date: 4-Apr-2005
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