By David Harmon, Etienne Vouga, Breannan Smith, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun
Communications of the ACM,
April 2012,
Vol. 55 No. 4, Pages 102-109
10.1145/2133806.2133828
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Physicists have long observed physical phenomena and developed mathematical models to describe them. The advent of computers has allowed us to implement these models as software in a computational environment, launching the field of physical simulation.
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