Fast and reliable collision culling using graphics hardware

NK Govindaraju, MC Lin, D Manocha - … of the ACM symposium on Virtual …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology, 2004dl.acm.org
We present a reliable culling algorithm that enables fast and accurate collision detection
between triangulated models in a complex environment. Our algorithm performs fast visibility
queries on the GPUs for eliminating a subset of primitives that are not in close proximity. To
overcome the accuracy problems caused by the limited viewport resolution, we compute the
Minkowski sum of each primitive with a sphere and perform reliable 2.5 D overlap tests
between the primitives. We are able to achieve more effective collision culling as compared …
We present a reliable culling algorithm that enables fast and accurate collision detection between triangulated models in a complex environment. Our algorithm performs fast visibility queries on the GPUs for eliminating a subset of primitives that are not in close proximity. To overcome the accuracy problems caused by the limited viewport resolution, we compute the Minkowski sum of each primitive with a sphere and perform reliable 2.5D overlap tests between the primitives. We are able to achieve more effective collision culling as compared to prior object-space culling algorithms. We integrate our culling algorithm with CULLIDE [8] and use it to perform reliable GPU-based collision queries at interactive rates on all types of models, including non-manifold geometry, deformable models, and breaking objects.
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