Interruptible collision detection for deformable objects

  • Authors:
  • C. Mendoza;C. O'Sullivan

  • Affiliations:
  • Virtual Reality and Modeling Group, Deptal. II, Desp. 147, Rey Juan Carlos University, c/Tulipan s/n, 28933 Mostoles (Madrid), Spain;Image Synthesis Group, Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach to performing time-critical collision detection for deformable objects. The deformable objects are represented by dense meshes and their deformations are steered by a coarser mesh (reduced model) based on explicit finite elements, to achieve an interruptible algorithm, we use a sphere tree constructed using an adaptive medial-axis approximation of the dense mesh. The bounding spheres are updated using the coarse mesh, thus balancing computational accuracy and speed.