Researchers in the robotics laboratory at ETH and for sure other universities were struggling with the complicated, not-efficient simulators for rigid and viscoelastic materials in multi-body systems to implement their ideas before wasting money and time on prototypes. On the other hand, the pioneers in the Disney research hub needed the supervised-learned, easily tunable simulators […]
While watching Marvel movies, are the character handsome? Do you like their clothes? When playing video games, do you want to change the clothing of your character? or even pay for it? In most of cartoon movies we were watching, or some clips from Marvel movies, characters are always dressing beautiful clothes, suites, skirts, etc. […]
Motivation Recently, there has been a tendency toward optimization formulation in computer graphics, and as a result, designing robust and fast solvers for this purpose has become a hot topic among researchers. There are numerous methods that optimizers utilize for solving an optimization problem, and Newton’s method is one of the most famous ones. The […]
Find a cable (the power cable of your computer, or a headphone cable, will do nicely). Take hold of it from two points, about a hand’s breadth apart. Try twisting, bending, and pulling it. Notice how it resists your efforts. Notice how the cable has a natural bend and twist to it, even at rest. […]
It’s Summer 1999! Nunavut is the newest Canadian province, the Euro is here, some guy called George W. Bush says he’s running for President (like he has any chance!) and George Lucas just released the first prequel to his Star Wars franchise (I haven’t seen it yet, but I assume it’s just as good as […]