filename : Bic09.pdf entry : inproceedings conference : SIGGRAPH 2009, New Orleans, USA, August 3-7, 2009 pages : 89:1 - 89:9 year : 2009 month : August title : Capture and Modeling of Non-Linear Heterogeneous Soft Tissue subtitle : author : Bernd Bickel and Moritz Baecher and Miguel A. Otaduy and Wojciech Matusik and Hanspeter Pfister and Markus Gross booktitle : SIGGRAPH '09: ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 papers location : New Orleans, Louisiana, USA ISSN/ISBN : editor : publisher : ACM Press / ACM SIGGRAPH publ.place : New York, NY, USA volume : 28 issue : 3 language : english keywords : physically based animation and modeling, model acquisition, deformations, data-driven graphics abstract : This paper introduces a data-driven representation and modeling technique for simulating non-linear heterogeneous soft tissue. It simplifies the construction of convincing deformable models by avoiding complex selection and tuning of physical material parameters, yet retaining the richness of non-linear heterogeneous behavior. We acquire a set of example deformations of a real object, and represent each of them as a spatially varying stress-strain relationship in a finite-element model. We then model the material by non-linear interpolation of these stress-strain relationships in strain-space. Our method relies on a simple-to-build capture system and an efficient run-time simulation algorithm based on incremental loading, making it suitable for interactive computer graphics applications. We present the results of our approach for several nonlinear materials and biological soft tissue, with accurate agreement of our model to the measured data.