yuanming-hu/taichi_mpm

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A high-performance C++ implementation of the Moving Least Squares Material Point Method (MLS-MPM) with cutting and two-way rigid body coupling, published at SIGGRAPH 2018. It includes an educational 88-line version and serves as reference code for the accompanying research paper.

Use cases

• simulate sand, snow, and other granular materials with MPM
• learn how the material point method works from a compact code example
• reproduce MLS-MPM research results from the SIGGRAPH 2018 paper
• simulate fluid-structure interaction with rigid body coupling
• build a physics-based material simulation for graphics research

When to choose

• you need a fast, reference-quality MPM solver for research or graphics
• you want readable educational code explaining MLS-MPM
• you need cutting and rigid-body coupling in a particle simulation

When to avoid

• you need a maintained production library with active support
• you want a general-purpose physics engine for games
• you need Python-first APIs (consider Taichi instead)

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

simulation graphics simulation graphics computer-vision cpp windows cross-platform mpm material-point-method physics-simulation siggraph research-code cpic numerical-methods physics linux macos

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