FreeForm: Reduced-Order Deformable Simulation from Particle-Based Skinning Eigenmodes

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Hauptverfasser: Xiang, Donglai, Modi, Vismay, Dagli, Rishit, Trusty, Ty, Daviet, Gilles, Chen, Anka He, Sharp, Nicholas, Levin, David I. W.
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author Xiang, Donglai
Modi, Vismay
Dagli, Rishit
Trusty, Ty
Daviet, Gilles
Chen, Anka He
Sharp, Nicholas
Levin, David I. W.
author_facet Xiang, Donglai
Modi, Vismay
Dagli, Rishit
Trusty, Ty
Daviet, Gilles
Chen, Anka He
Sharp, Nicholas
Levin, David I. W.
contents We present a novel formulation for mesh-free, reduced-order simulation of deformable hyperelastic objects. Existing work in reduced-order elastodynamic simulation represents the input geometry by either meshes, which can be difficult to obtain due to challenges in scanning and triangulating complex shapes, or by neural fields that require per-shape optimization. We propose to adopt a Reproducing Kernel Particle Method (RKPM) representation, which enables the construction of reduced-order skinning weights by solving a generalized eigensystem on the Hessian matrix of the elastic energy. We demonstrate that this formulation not only leads to a 40x training speedup compared with the per-shape optimization of neural fields, but also achieves lower simulation error when evaluated against the converged results of finite element method. We show our simulation results on a wide variety of objects in different representations including meshes and Gaussian splats, as well as the application of our method in the downstream task of robot simulation.
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spellingShingle FreeForm: Reduced-Order Deformable Simulation from Particle-Based Skinning Eigenmodes
Xiang, Donglai
Modi, Vismay
Dagli, Rishit
Trusty, Ty
Daviet, Gilles
Chen, Anka He
Sharp, Nicholas
Levin, David I. W.
Graphics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We present a novel formulation for mesh-free, reduced-order simulation of deformable hyperelastic objects. Existing work in reduced-order elastodynamic simulation represents the input geometry by either meshes, which can be difficult to obtain due to challenges in scanning and triangulating complex shapes, or by neural fields that require per-shape optimization. We propose to adopt a Reproducing Kernel Particle Method (RKPM) representation, which enables the construction of reduced-order skinning weights by solving a generalized eigensystem on the Hessian matrix of the elastic energy. We demonstrate that this formulation not only leads to a 40x training speedup compared with the per-shape optimization of neural fields, but also achieves lower simulation error when evaluated against the converged results of finite element method. We show our simulation results on a wide variety of objects in different representations including meshes and Gaussian splats, as well as the application of our method in the downstream task of robot simulation.
title FreeForm: Reduced-Order Deformable Simulation from Particle-Based Skinning Eigenmodes
topic Graphics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29318