Nvidia Corporation

Bruno Heidelberger

Markus H Gross

Matthias Teschner

Matthias Müller-Fischer

Matthias Heinz Muller-Fischer

Matthias Müller

Curtis Matthew Davis

Jean Pierre Bordes

Dilip Sequeira

Simon Schirm

Adam Moravanszky

Bryan Richard Galdrikian

Dennis Gustafsson

Peter Tchernev

Marcus Hennix

A method of executing a physics simulation is performed in a system comprising a computational platform, a main application stored in the computational platform, a secondary application stored in the computational platform, and a cloth application programming interface (API) implemented in the computational platform. The method defines a cloth simulation call in the cloth API, and by operation of the main application, invokes a software routine using the cloth simulation call. Additionally, by operation of the secondary application, a state of the physics simulation is updated in response to the software routine.

Cloth application programmer interface

A method of stimulating a deformable object comprises modeling deformable elasticity for the object by defining an actual shape and a goal shape and pulling points in the goal shape towards corresponding points in the goal shape.

Method of simulating deformable object using geometrically motivated model

A physics software development kit (PSDK) provides scalable physics content as a 'vertical' that defines one or more physics simulations for a graphics asset in a graphics scene. The vertical and the graphics asset may be provided in a verticals library associated with the PSDK or generated using the PSDK. The PSDK integrates the vertical into an existing graphics application to generate physically-realistic graphics content. The vertical may be scaled by a user according to the capabilities of a computer system that executes the PSDK or, alternatively, may be scaled by the PSDK based on received hardware capabilities information. The PSDK selectively offloads the physics simulations associated with the vertical to a physics processing unit to optimize usage of processor resources. In addition, the PSDK provides a technique to extract a graphics asset based on an existing 3D model of the object. The graphics asset may then be simulated with a vertical to provide a physical simulation of the 3D model of the object.

System for providing scalable physics content

A method of simulating a deformable object comprises modeling deformable elasticity for the object by defining an actual shape and a goal shape and pulling points in the goal shape towards corresponding points in the goal shape.

Disclosed is a method of simulating a dynamic object comprising a plurality of vertices. The method comprises defining a current position and a current velocity for a vertex 'v' among the plurality of vertices, generating an estimated next position for vertex 'v' based on the current position and current velocity, updating the estimated next position based on a plurality of constraints, and after updating the estimated next position, computing a next position and a next velocity for vertex &#x201c;v&#x201d; based on the current position and estimated next position.

Method of simulating dynamic objects using position based dynamics

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Bruno Heidelberger