Snail - A Softbody Physics Simulator

A softbody physics simulator guided and inspired by this amazing book by Minchen Li et al.

Features

• Physics
  • Gravity
  • Spring Elasticity
  • Arbitrary Mesh Contact*
  • Stationary Points
• Solvers & Optimizers
  • Backwards Euler
  • Newton's Method
  • L-BFGS
• Optimizations
  • Sweep and prune broadphase
  • Sparse hessian solvers
• GUI
  • Blinn-Phong shading
  • Controllable camera, pausing, reseting, stepping
• JSON to Scene Parser
  • See resources/scenes for examples

*still in development*

Dependencies

• GLM under GLM_INCLUDE_DIR
• GLEW under GLEW_DIR
• GLFW under GLFW_DIR
• Eigen under EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR
• CMake

Build

// Navigate to snail/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j4
./snail PATH_TO_RESOURCES PATH_TO_SCENE_JSON