Breaking the Constraint System: Solving Dynamic Media Challenges
2025-04-18
In phase two, the team successfully overcame challenges like "floatiness," "blow-ups," and poor performance in constraint systems. Techniques employed included propagating knowns, leveraging linear relationships to reduce solver variable dimensions, and clustering constraints into independently solvable clusters. These significantly improved the system's stability and performance. The team experimented with various solvers and optimized the system further by changing the way values were represented (e.g., using polar coordinates). These improvements enabled the construction of physically accurate mechanical structures and true bidirectional computation, laying a solid foundation for building dynamic media.