14-year-old GPU rigid body pipeline revived in CUDA simulates 2.05M dominoes
erwincoumans · x · 2026-10-14
Erwin Coumans demos his GPU rigid body pipeline, updated for the first time in 14 years and now in CUDA, running Pierre Terdiman's PEEL domino scenes: 20x20 layouts of 16 rings (radius 10-40) = 2,048,000 dominoes, plus 3M-box stacks and pyramids, all simulated on GPU.
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