Küçükyilmaz, AyşeÖzgüç, Bülent2016-02-082016-02-08200597835402941460302-9743http://hdl.handle.net/11693/27296Conference name: 20th International SymposiumDate of Conference: 26-28 October 2005This paper describes a system for the animation of fracturing brittle objects. The system combines rigid body simulation methods with a constraint-based model to animate fracturing of arbitrary polyhedral shaped objects under impact. The objects are represented as sets of masses, where pairs of adjacent masses are connected via a distance-preserving linear constraint. Lagrange multipliers are used to compute the forces exerted by those constraints, where these forces determine how and where the object will break. However, a problem with existing systems is that the initial body models exhibit well-defined uniformity, which makes the generated animations unrealistic. This work introduces a method for generating more realistic cracks without any performance loss. This method is easy to implement and applicable on different models. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.EnglishComputer simulationConstraint theoryCracksLagrange multipliersObject oriented programmingProblem solvingBody simulationBrittle objectsLinear constraintRigid objectsAnimationConference Paper10.1007/11569596_7110.1007/11569596