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Cross-Platform Cloth Simulation API for Games

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Physics simulation is an active research topic in games, because without realistic physics, even the most beautiful game feels static and lifeless. Although cloth simulation is not new in computer graphics, high level of details of cloth in video games is rare and mostly coarse due to complex and nonlinear physical properties of cloth, which requires substantial computing power necessary to simulate it in real-time. This paper presents a robust and scalable real-time cloth simulation framework by exploring a variety of modern simulation techniques to produce realistic cloth simulation for games. The framework integrates with OpenCL GPGPU library to leverage parallelism. The final result is an API for games development with enriched interactive environments.

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  1. Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB, UK

    Wen Tang

  2. Auroch Digital, Bristol Games Hub, 77 Stokes Croft, Bristol, UK

    Abhishek Sagi

  3. School of Computing, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK

    Daniel Green

  4. School of Computing and Engineering, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK

    Tao Ruan Wan

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  1. Computer Science, John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Abdennour El Rhalibi

  2. Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    Feng Tian

  3. Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  4. Computer Science and Technology, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom

    Baoquan Liu

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Tang, W., Sagi, A., Green, D., Wan, T.R. (2016). Cross-Platform Cloth Simulation API for Games. In: El Rhalibi, A., Tian, F., Pan, Z., Liu, B. (eds) E-Learning and Games. Edutainment 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9654. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40259-8_20

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