Extracting surface geometry from particle-based fracture simulations

Chakrit Watcharopas, Yash Sapra, Robert Geist, Joshua A. Levine

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Abstract

This paper describes an algorithm for fracture surface extraction from particle-based simulations of brittle fracture. We rely on a tetrahedral mesh of the rest configuration particles and use a simple, table-lookup approach to produce triangulated fracture geometry for each rest configuration tetrahedron based on its configuration of broken edges. Subsequently, these triangle vertices are transformed with a per particle transformation to obtain a fracture surface in world space that has minimal deformation and also preserves temporal coherence. The results show that our approach is effective at producing realistic fractures, and capable of extracting fracture surfaces from the complex simulation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Visual Computing - 11th International Symposium, ISVC 2015, Proceedings
EditorsMark Elendt, Richard Boyle, Eric Ragan, Bahram Parvin, Rogerio Feris, Tim McGraw, Ioannis Pavlidis, Regis Kopper, George Bebis, Darko Koracin, Zhao Ye, Gunther Weber
PublisherSpringer-Verlag
Pages82-91
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319278568
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing, ISVC 2015 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: Dec 14 2015Dec 16 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9474
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing, ISVC 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period12/14/1512/16/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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