Writing

Notes from the lab

Stories behind papers, experiments, and collaborations.

  • Jun 10, 2024 Field Notes from Power Plastics

    It has been a year since we began shaping the Power Plastics project into a cohesive solver. We started with an early constraint: artists wanted the expressiveness of material point methods, but ou...

  • Apr 02, 2024 A Lightweight Checklist for New MPM Projects

    Whenever I begin a new MPM prototype, I fall back on a short checklist. It looks deceptively simple, but it prevents 90% of late-night debugging sessions.