Rigid Body Dynamics Links

This is a collection of links about rigid body dynamics and related topics.
We try to update this list from time to time. If you find any broken links, or if you know other important links, please contact us.

Link	Note
3D World Simulation - Martin Baker	3D world simulation knowledge base by Martin Baker containing a 3D physics section.
Buoyancy Particles
Adaptive Dynamics of Articulated Bodies	Paper by Stephane Redon, Nico Galoppo and Ming C. Lin.
Classical Mechanics	Online course.
COLLADA	3D asset exchange schema including physics
Computer Simulations in Physics	Physics Simulations page by Maciej Matyka. Mainly about soft bodies and fluids.
Chris Hecker's Rigid Body Dynamics Information
Computer Animation Reading List	Contains links to important papers.
David Baraff's Home Page	Contains SIGGRAPH lecture notes of the course "Physically Based Modeling: Principles and Practice".
Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
Essential Math for Game Programmers	GDC tutorial.
Game Physics	Erin Catto's Blog.
Hardwire's Game Physics Resources	Links to various resources
Homepage of Kenny Erleben	Read his PhD dissertation!
Homepage of Masayuki Tanaka	Research: Rigid Body Simulation Using a Particle Method.
Homepage of Mihai Anitescu
Impulse-based dynamic simulation	Jan Bender's research.
Linear Complementarity, Linear and Nonlinear Programming	Internet edition of a book by Katta G. Murty
Math and Physics on GameDev.net	Articles and tutorials.
Multibody System Dynamics	Links to multibody system dynamics resources: Researchers, organizations, software, conferences, and more.
MyPhysicsLab	Java applets with simple physics experiments.
Olivier's code junkyard	A view code samples about collision detection and physics.
Outsourcing Reality: Integrating a Commercial Physics Engine	Gamasutra article.
Physics-Based Animation	"This site is dedicated to accumulating and highlighting research and miscellany in the exciting field of physics-based animation for computer graphics..."
Physics Simulation Forum	Collision detection and physics forum on the Bullet website.
Physically Based Modeling and Interactive Simulation	Carnegie Mellon University course.
Pixar Research	Contains "Physically Based Modeling" Siggraph 2001 course notes.
Scythe Physics Editor	A physics editor, for physics based games and applications. Physics engine-independant. Renderer independant
Simulation and Game Physics	German page by Christian Herta
Homepage of Takahiro Harada	Research: Rigid bodies and fluid on the GPU.
Trinkle's Rigid Body Dynamics	Info, papers from Jeff Trinkle. Trinkle's Survey of Multibody Dynamics Software has a list of physics engines.
Geometric Tools	The official site for the Wild Magic Real-Time 3D Graphics Engine. Open Source (LGPL); contains physics samples.

 

PPU and GPU

Link	Note
AGEIA PhysX processor	AGEIA physics processing unit.
ATI CrossFire and Physics	Physics processing on the ATI GPU.

 

Old Links (maybe outdated...)

Link	Note
Stepan Mitkin's homepage - Rigid body dynamics simulator
Using Shockwave's 3D Havok Physics Engine (Advanced)	Intel® Software College Course