Flexible materials in Avango/spl trade/ virtual environment framework

We describe a system for real-time simulation of linear elastic deformations of volumetric objects in virtual environments, implemented in Avango VE framework [T. H. Avocado (1999)]. The approach makes use of the methods of finite and boundary elements and precomputed Green's functions, and supports real-time interactive deformations of large elastic models, containing more than 10,000 volumetric nodes, at the graphics update rate 85fps.