Creating models of truss structures with optimization

Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH '02

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 295-301

  Smith, Jeffrey ^a   Hodgins, Jessica ^a   Oppenheim, Irving ^a   Witkin, Andrew ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pixar Animation Studios ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

constrained optimization; nonlinear optimization; physically based modeling; truss structures

Indexed keywords

DESIGN VARIABLES; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING; PIN JOINTS; REAL STRUCTURE; RIGID BAR; TRUSS STRUCTURE; TRUSS STRUCTURES;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; TRUSSES;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77953826201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/566570.566580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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