Scalable Real-Time Vehicle Deformation for Interactive Environments

Abstract: This paper proposes a real-time physically-based method for simulating vehicle deformation. Our system synthesizes vehicle deformation characteristics by considering a low-dimensional coupled vehicle body technique. We simulate the motion and crumbling behavior of vehicles smashing into rigid objects. We explain and demonstrate the combination of a reduced complexity non-linear finite element system that is scalable and computationally efficient. We use an explicit position-based integration scheme to improve simulation speeds, while remaining stable and preserving modeling accuracy. We show our approach using a variety of vehicle deformation test cases which were simulated in real-time.