<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Just like flight and spaceship simulators already represent a standard, we expect that soon enough, surgical simulators should become a standard in medical applications. A simulations quality is strongly related to the image quality as well as the degree of realism of the simulation. Increased quality requires increased resolution, increased representation speed but more important, a larger amount of mathematical equations. To make it possible, not only that we need more efficient computers, but especially more calculation process optimizations. A simulator executes one of the most complex sets of calculations each time it detects a contact between the virtual objects, therefore optimization of collision detection is fatal for the work-speed of a simulator and hence in its quality</p></abstract>

Just like flight and spaceship simulators already represent a standard, we expect that soon enough, surgical simulators should become a standard in medical applications. A simulations quality is strongly related to the image quality as well as the degree of realism of the simulation. Increased quality requires increased resolution, increased representation speed but more important, a larger amount of mathematical equations. To make it possible, not only that we need more efficient computers, but especially more calculation process optimizations. A simulator executes one of the most complex sets of calculations each time it detects a contact between the virtual objects, therefore optimization of collision detection is fatal for the work-speed of a simulator and hence in its quality

Optimization of Collision Detection in Surgical Simulations

UPB Bucharest Romania, No.5 Iuliu Gall str. Bucharest Romania

„Titu Maiorescu” University, Department of Surgical Disciplines, Faculty of Medicine, Surgical Department Hospital CF 2, Bucharest, Romania

Department of Manufacturing Technology, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Acta Universitatis Cibiniensis. Technical Series

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Just like flight and spaceship simulators already represent a standard, we expect that soon enough, surgical simulators should become a standard in medical...

Optimization of Collision Detection in Surgical Simulations

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Page range: 34 - 39

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aucts-2014-0007

Keywords
surgical virtual reality, collision detection optimization, representation quality

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Optimization of Collision Detection in Surgical Simulations

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Page range: 34 - 39

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aucts-2014-0007

Keywordssurgical virtual reality, collision detection optimization, representation quality

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
surgical virtual reality, collision detection optimization, representation quality