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Game Physics Just Got 170 Times Faster — Key Takeaways

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Game Physics Just Got 170 Times Faster

Two Minute Papers6mJul 3, 2026

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A new elastic simulation method using precomputed co-rotated local perturbation subspaces runs 30–170x faster than Vertex Block Descent, enabling real-time deformable physics at 2.5 million elements.

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  1. 1mThe Core Challenge of Deformable Simulation
  2. 2mThe Overshoot Problem and Why GPUs Can't Help (Yet)
  3. 3mThe New Method: Precomputed Local Perturbation Subspace
  4. 4mReal-Time Performance Benchmarks
  5. 5mWhere VBD Fails Entirely and Pre-Computation Costs
  6. 6mWhy Pre-Computation Is a Non-Issue for Games

This is about 30 to 170 times faster than VBD. What? That is insanely fast.

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