Animatomy: An animator-centric, anatomically inspired system for 3d facial modeling, animation and transfer

B Choi, H Eom, B Mouscadet, S Cullingford… - SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present Animatomy, a novel anatomic+ animator centric representation of the human
face. Present FACS-based systems are plagued with problems of face muscle separation …

Guided bubbles and wet foam for realistic whitewater simulation

J Wretborn, S Flynn, A Stomakhin - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present a method for enhancing fluid simulations with realistic bubble and foam detail.
We treat bubbles as discrete air particles, two-way coupled with a sparse volumetric Euler …

A multilevel active-set preconditioner for box-constrained pressure poisson solvers

T Takahashi, C Batty - Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Efficiently solving large-scale box-constrained convex quadratic programs (QPs) is an
important computational challenge in physical simulation. We propose a new multilevel …

A sparse distributed gigascale resolution material point method

Y Qiu, ST Reeve, M Li, Y Yang, SR Slattery… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this article, we present a four-layer distributed simulation system and its adaptation to the
Material Point Method (MPM). The system is built upon a performance portable C++ …

Pitfalls of Projection: A study of Newton-type solvers for incremental potentials

A Longva, F Löschner… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Nonlinear systems arising from time integrators like Backward Euler can sometimes be
reformulated as optimization problems, known as incremental potentials. We show through a …

Path tracing in Production: The Path of Water

M Droske, J Hanika, J Vorba, A Weidlich… - ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Physically-based light transport simulation has become a widely established standard to
generate images in the movie industry. It promises various important practical advantages …

Interactive Hair Simulation on the GPU using ADMM

G Daviet - ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference Proceedings, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We devise a local–global solver dedicated to the simulation of Discrete Elastic Rods (DER)
with Coulomb friction that can fully leverage the massively parallel compute capabilities of …

Lifted Curls: A Model for Tightly Coiled Hair Simulation

A Shi, H Wu, J Parr, AM Darke, T Kim - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present an isotropic, hyperelastic model specifically designed for the efficient simulation
of tightly coiled hairs whose curl radii approach 5 mm. Our model is robust to large bends …

A Primal-Dual Box-Constrained QP Pressure Poisson Solver With Topology-Aware Geometry-Inspired Aggregation AMG

T Takahashi, C Batty - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a new barrier-based box-constrained convex QP solver based on a primal-dual
interior point method to efficiently solve large-scale pressure Poisson problems with non …

Higher Replay Ratio Empowers Sample-Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

L Xu, Z Liu, A Dockhorn, D Perez-Liebana… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
One of the notorious issues for Reinforcement Learning (RL) is poor sample efficiency.
Compared to single agent RL, the sample efficiency for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning …