Laboratory for Interactive Virtual Environments Our lab pursues research in physics-based simulation of natural phenomena within a virtual environment, exploring applications in computer graphics, computational biomechanics, and robotics. We design numerical discretizations for capturing new effects, and also emphasize the design of efficient data structures and numerical solvers to allow highly detailed simulations to benefit from the hardware available on modern compute platforms, with the ultimate goal of achieving real-time (or interactive) simulation rates.

Lab Members

	Prof. Mridul Aanjaneya Lab Director Assistant Professor Computer Science		Dr. Tao Xue Postdoctoral Researcher Computer Science		Yanshi Luo PhD Student Computer Science
	Haozhe Su PhD Student Computer Science		Chengguizi Han PhD Student Computer Science

Software

Our lab maintains an open-source codebase called Nova, with the aim of creating a library that is light-weight and flexible, while at the same time customizable for high-performance implementations. Its design allows for custom visualization plugins that are specific to each project, and example projects that utilize the library are kept under a separate repository called Nova_Examples.