Spring-bead Animation of Viscoelastic Materials
Nobuhiko Tamura Norimichi Tsumura Toshiya Nakaguchi Yoichi Miyake
Chiba University, JAPAN
To appear in ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Sketches:
Polymeric materials such as rubber, fat, oil and egg are known to have viscoelastic characteristics. This sketch presents a method to simulate viscoelastic material using a spring-mass system. A large number of particles (20,000) are used to create a randomly connected mesh that mimics the structure of the polymeric material. The resulting spring-mass system can be simulated efficiently on a graphics processing unit (GPU).