First sighting of a 2GHz chip, Itanium architecture, heatsinks, wired fridges and more on the first day of the Fall 2000 Intel Developer Forum. Real-Time Cloth Simulation IDF also provides sessions for game developers.
Realistic simulations are difficult and computationally intensive.
To create workable models for this session, Dean Macri , an Intel engineer, approximated fabric as a complex mass-spring matrix triangulated to form a mesh. Mr. Macri then investigated implicit integration and semi-implicit integration and discussed the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. The session was somewhat math intensive involving ODE's, numerical integration, sparse matrix manipulation, etc., but you can read a paper Mr. Macri has written on this subject and download the code from Intel's site . Intel is showing off a system that its representative claims is one of the fastest booting Windows based PC in the world. From the moment the power switch was depressed to the time all hard drive activity ceased took only a little over 18 seconds.