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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2014
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A simulation apparatus which simulates a position of each of a plurality of objects, which move in a virtual space together with time, at each of a plural calculation time is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an object connection block for applying, to each object of each three or more objects contacting with each other at each of the plural calculation time points, a pointer value indicative of a contact destination object with which the object is in contact determining one of the three or more objects as a terminal end to connect the objects; and a pointer value updating block for repeating a pointer value updating process, by which the pointer value of each object is updated to the pointer value of the contact destination object indicated by the pointer value until the pointer values of all of the objects come to indicate the object of the terminal end.