Enabling real-time physics simulation in future interactive entertainment

Proceedings - Sandbox Symposium 2006: ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Symposium, Sandbox '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 71-81

  Yeh, Thomas Y ^a   Faloutsos, Petros ^a   Reinman, Glenn ^a  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

benchmark; error tolerance; interactive entertainment; parallel execution; real time physics

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION; COMPLEX ENTITIES; CONTENT CREATION; DRIVING FACTORS; ENTERTAINMENT APPLICATION; ERROR TOLERANCE; FAST ESTIMATION; FRAME RATE; FRAMES PER SECONDS; INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT; ON-THE-FLY; PARALLEL EXECUTIONS; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PHYSICS ENGINE; PHYSICS SIMULATION; REAL VALUES; REAL-TIME PHYSICS; VALUE PREDICTION; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 77954003786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1183316.1183326     Document Type: Conference Paper

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