It is difficult for outsiders to understand how hard flexible-material simulation really is. Rigid-body simulation has only six degrees of freedom, while flexible simulation must discretize a continuum into thousands of mesh elements, exploding the degrees of freedom from six to tens of thousands and increasing computing consumption by three to six orders of magnitude. Game engines can render spectacular real-time scenes with hundreds of rigid-body collisions, yet a realistic simulation of one high-resolution fabric can consume the entire computing capacity of a GPU.
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