Ten Minute Physics

This is the page accompanying my youtube channel Ten Minute Physics. In short episodes of about ten minutes I explain the basic concepts of physically based simulation. Each time I write a little javascript demo that runs in any browswer.

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21 How to write a fire simulator in a web page.
In this tutorial I explain how to write a fire simulator based on the Eulerian fluid simulator discussed in tutorial 17.
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20 How to write a height-field water simulation.
In this tutorial I explain how to simulate water as a height field and its two-way interaction with solid objects.
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19 Differential equations and calculus from scratch
In this tutorial I start with simple algebra and derive calculus, differential equations and the most famous mathematical constants in one train of thought.
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18 How to write a FLIP Water Simulator.
In this tutorial I explain the FLIP method. It is an extension of the Eulerian fluid simulation method which uses particles to distinguish air from water cells.
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17 How to write an Eulerian Fluid Simulator with 200 lines of code.
In this tutorial I explain the basics of Eulerian, grid-based fluid simulation and show how to write a simulation engine based on these discussed concepts.
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16 Simulation on the GPU
In this tutorial I give a short introduction to simulating on the GPU. I use python in connection with the nvidia python extension warp as a simple way to write GPU simulations.
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15 Self-collisions, solving the hardest problem in animation
In this tutorial I give you 5 tricks for stably handling cloth self-collisions. We use the cloth simulation of tutorial 14 and the hash grid introduced in tutorial 11.
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14 The secret of cloth simulation
In this tutorial I reveal the secret of cloth simulation. I use it to write a very fast and stable cloth demo that simulates 6400 triangles at more than 30 fps on a cell phone in javascript.
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13 Writing a Tetrahedralizer for Blender
In this tutorial I explain how to create a tetrahedral mesh for a surface mesh using the incremental Delaunay method. I also briefly discuss the implementation as a python blender plugin.
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12 100x speedup for soft body simulations
In this tutorial I show how to speedup soft body simulation by 100x by embedding a high detail visual mesh into a low resolution tetrahedral simulation mesh.
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11 Finding overlaps among thousands of objects blazing fast
In this tutorial I show how to find overlaps among thousands of objects using spatial hashing. In addition to explaining the method, I also show how to implement it in a very efficient way.
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10 Simple and unbreakable simulation of soft bodies
In this tutorial I show how to simulate soft bodies with in an unconditionally stable and simple way. Using a discrete rather than a continuous model and a local instead of a global solver removes almost all difficulties of traditional methods and yields a simple, short and fast algorithm. I recommend to watch tutorial 9 first.
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09 Getting ready to simulate the world with XPBD
In this tutorial I introduce general extended position based dynamics or XPBD, a simple and unbreakable method to simulate almost everything. The tutorial is self contained. However, I highly recommend to watch tutorial 7 first to refresh your 3d math.
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08 Providing user interaction with a 3d scene
In this tutorial I show how to enable the user to pick up move and throw objects in a 3d scene. For this I introduce the concepts of a mouse ray and ray casting.
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07 Intuitive 3d Vector Math for Simulation
I give an introduction to 3d vector math, the math that we need to write 3d simulations. In the compact presentation I focus on the part used in simulations. In addition to the definitions of the concepts, I explain my personal intuitions behind the concepts which I developed over time.
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06 Writing a triple pendulum simulation is simple
I show you how to handle hard distance constraints with Position based dynamics. They can be used to simulate a large variety of objects like cloth, ropes, hair, fur, sand and many more. To demonstrate the accuracy of PBD we will write a triple pendulum simulation.
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05 The simplest possible physics simulation method
I introduce the Position Based Dynamics method to simulate constraints. I apply it to the circle on wire problem and compare it to the analytic solution to demonstrate its accuracy.
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04 How to write a pinball simulation
I show you how to handle ball - capsule collisions and collisions against arbitrary boundaries represented by segments. I also show how to handle touch and mouse events.
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03 - Ball collision handling in 2d
I show how to handle collisions of balls in 2d while creating a billiard scene.
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02 - Introduction to 3d and VR web browser physics
We make our cannonball 3d and turn it into a VR demo using the graphics engine THREE.js.
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01 - Introduction to 2d web browser physics
I give a brief intoduction to this channel and to physics. After that we write a 2d cannonball simulation.
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