The purpose of this thesis is to develop and demonstrate a physically based rigid
body simulation with a focus on simplifications to achieve real-time performance.
This thesis aims to demonstrate that by improving the efficiency with simplified
calculations of possible bottlenecks of a real-time rigid body simulation, the accuracy
can be improved. A prototype simulation framework is implemented to evaluate
the simplifications. Finally, various real-time rendering features are implemented to
achieve a realistic look, and also to imitate the game-like environment where real-time
rigid body simulations are mostly utilized.
A series of demonstration experiments are used to show that our simulator does,
in fact, achieve real-time performance, while maintaining satisfactory accuracy. A
direct comparison of this prototype with a commercially available simulator verifies
that the simplified approach improves the efficiency and does not damage the accuracy
under our test conditions. Integration of rendering elements like advanced shading,
shadowing, depth of field and motion blur into our real-time framework also enhanced
the perception of simulation outcomes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/5770 |
| Date | 17 September 2007 |
| Creators | Yuksel, Can |
| Contributors | House, Donald H. |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Thesis, text |
| Format | 7875747 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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