Nonlinear Optimization

We propose a novel two-way method for fast and reliable continuous collision handling. Our method launches an optimization from both ends of the intermediate time-integrated state and the previous intersection-free state.

This course introduces students and practitioners to several parallel iterative techniques to tackle Physics-based animation of elastic materials and achieve elastic deformations in real-time.

We show many elastic body simulation approaches can be interpreted as descent methods. Based on this concept, we propose a new gradient descent method using Jacobi preconditioning and Chebyshev acceleration.