An Architecture for General Purpose Physical System Simulation

Résumé du livre

Simulation of physical systems has long been of interest to scientists and engineers, and significant efforts have been directed toward the development of general purpose computer aided design and analysis systems. To date, however, success has been largely limited to the production of tools suited only for particular aspects of design: computer aided design systems have primarily emphasized specification of geometry; simulation systems from the mechanical engineering field have concentrated mainly on formulation and integration of an unchanging set of equations describing object behavior; and work by computer graphics and animation researchers has been aimed at producing good-looking animations without much regard for whether the generated motions were physically realistic. Flexible systems integrating all aspects of design and analysis have not yet been built.