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Iterative discrete element solver for efficient snow simulation
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computing, Department of Computer Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6920-9983
Blekinge Institute of Technology. student.
Blekinge Institute of Technology. student.
2022 (English)In: EGPGV 2022 – Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization / [ed] R.. Bujack, J. Tierny, F. Sadlo, 2022Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper presents a novel Discrete Element Method (DEM) on the GPU for efficient snow simulation. To this end, our approach employs an iterative scheme on particles that easily allows the snow density to vary vastly for simulation while still maintaining a relatively large time step. We provide computationally inexpensive ways to capture cohesion and compression in the snow that enables us to generalize the behavior of various kinds of snow (like dry, wet, etc.) by varying physical parameters within the same simulator. We achieve a speed-up of nearly eight times with one million snow particles over the existing real-time method, even while dealing with scenes containing complex object boundaries. Furthermore, our simulator not only retains stability at these large time steps but also improves upon the physical behavior of the existing method. We have also conducted a user evaluation of our approach, where a majority of the participants voted in favor of its realism value for computer games.

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2022.
Keywords [en]
physical simulation, snow, GPU
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Computer Sciences
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Computer Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-23145OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-23145DiVA, id: diva2:1669837
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Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), Rome, June 13
Available from: 2022-06-15 Created: 2022-06-15 Last updated: 2023-12-28Bibliographically approved

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