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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2006
Simon Schirm, Zürich, CH;
Richard Tonge, St. Louis, MO (US);
Simon Schirm, Zürich, CH;
Richard Tonge, St. Louis, MO (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for executing a physics simulation 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 smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) application programming interface (API) implemented in the computational platform. The method defines a SPH call in the SPH API, and by operation of the main application, invokes a software routine using the SPH call. Additionally, by operation of the secondary application, a state of the physics simulation is updated in response to the software routine.