[1] Potential climate change effects on aspects of conjunctive management of water resources can be evaluated by linking climate models with fully integrated groundwater– surface water models. The objective of this study is to develop a modeling system that links global climate models with regional hydrologic models, using the California Central Valley as a case study. The new method is a suppl...

Physically-based animation techniques enable more realistic and accurate animation to be created. We present a fully physically-based approach for efficiently producing realisticlooking, natural animations of facial movement, including animation of expressive wrinkles. This involves simulation of detailed models using a GPU-based total Lagrangian explicit dynamic finite element (TLED FE) system...

We present an efficient, user-guided volumetric approximation algorithm, specifically designed for physically-based animation. Our method combines automatic and interactive segmentation methods to give users an intuitive and easy way to approximate 3D meshes. Our approach first constructs the simplified medial axis transform (MAT) of the input mesh object, and segments the medial axis (MA) into...

In this paper, we highlight our past experiences on fast penetration depth computation and its applications in different areas such as physically-based animation, 6DOF haptic rendering and robot motion planning.

Physically-based animation techniques enable more realistic and accurate animation to be created. We present a GPU-based finite element (FE) simulation and interactive visualisation system for efficiently producing realisticlooking animations of facial movement, including expressive wrinkles. It is optimised for simulating multi-layered voxel-based models using the total Lagrangian explicit dyn...

Realism has always been a goal in computer graphics. However, the algorithms involved in mimicking the physical world are often complex, abstract, and sensitive to changes in experimental parameters. We present an interface to a physically-based algorithm, a thin shell animation, which focuses on visualization, experimentation, and control. Through the use of dynamic surface coloring, abstract ...

BACKGROUND Disability is more based on social, rather than medical aspects. Lack of attention and social support may impact on participation of people with physical disability in various aspects and their return to normal life in the society. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to determine perceived social support and related factors among physically disabled in the city of Tehran. PATIENT...

Accurate physical modeling of transient dynamics with contact is validated by experiment and generally requires simulation at close to convergent spatial and temporal grid sizes. This makes even a single forward dynamic simulation run in 3D prohibitively expensive. On the other end of the spectrum physically based animation methods seek efficiency by pushing simulations towards maximally stable...