Robert Bridson

6.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
76 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Robert Bridson is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computational Mechanics and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Bridson has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 58 papers in Computational Mechanics and 16 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Robert Bridson's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (58 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (33 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (26 papers). Robert Bridson is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (58 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (33 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (26 papers). Robert Bridson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Denmark. Robert Bridson's co-authors include Ronald Fedkiw, Yongning Zhu, J. D. Anderson, Christopher Batty, Tyson Brochu, Florence Bertails, Eran Guendelman, Michael B. Nielsen, Chen Greif and Wei-Pai Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, ACM Transactions on Graphics and International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Robert Bridson

75 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Robust treatment of collisions, contact and friction for cloth animation

2002 516 citations Robert Bridson, Ronald Fedkiw et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →
Animating sand as a fluid

2005 502 citations Yongning Zhu, Robert Bridson ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →
Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics

2015 197 citations Robert Bridson profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Bridson Canada	36	3.5k	3.2k	1.2k	854	240	76	5.0k
Jos Stam United States	25	2.8k 0.8×	3.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	705 0.8×	53 0.2×	36	4.3k
Bruno Lévy France	34	4.5k 1.3×	4.2k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	185 0.2×	127 0.5×	98	6.5k
Denis Zorin United States	47	5.0k 1.4×	4.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	391 0.5×	479 2.0×	161	7.3k
Matthias Müller United Kingdom	25	2.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	640 0.5×	792 0.9×	120 0.5×	43	2.9k
Joseph Teran United States	36	3.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.5×	514 0.4×	610 0.7×	745 3.1×	66	4.1k
Andrew Selle United States	25	2.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	811 0.7×	424 0.5×	242 1.0×	37	3.0k
Chenfanfu Jiang United States	33	2.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	451 0.4×	459 0.5×	636 2.6×	117	3.6k
Gerald Farin United States	33	5.0k 1.4×	2.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	492 0.6×	517 2.2×	107	6.6k
Kurt Fleischer United States	15	2.4k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	883 1.0×	108 0.5×	26	3.9k
Scott Schaefer United States	31	2.8k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	223 0.3×	105 0.4×	82	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Bridson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Bridson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Bridson

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Keeler, T. A. & Robert Bridson. (2014). Ocean waves animation using boundary integral equations and explicit mesh tracking. 1–1. 15 indexed citations

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Erleben, Kenny, et al.. (2013). Multiphase Flow of Immiscible Fluids on Unstructured Moving Meshes. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 20(1). 4–16. 36 indexed citations

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Bridson, Robert, et al.. (2013). Isosurface stuffing improved. 1–1. 10 indexed citations

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Brochu, Tyson, T. A. Keeler, & Robert Bridson. (2012). Linear-time smoke animation with vortex sheet meshes. 87–95. 39 indexed citations

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Erleben, Kenny, et al.. (2012). Multiphase flow of immiscible fluids on unstructured moving meshes. 97–106. 24 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Michael B., et al.. (2012). Steady State Stokes Flow Interpolation for Fluid Control. Eurographics. 57–60. 2 indexed citations

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Bridson, Robert, et al.. (2012). MultiFLIP for energetic two-phase fluid simulation. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 31(2). 1–12. 87 indexed citations

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Bridson, Robert, et al.. (2012). Ghost SPH for animating water. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 31(4). 1–8. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, C. Karen, et al.. (2011). Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation. 4 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Michael B. & Robert Bridson. (2011). Guide shapes for high resolution naturalistic liquid simulation. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 30(4). 1–8. 42 indexed citations

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Batty, Christopher & Robert Bridson. (2010). A Variational Finite Difference Method for Time-Dependent Stokes Flow on Irregular Domains. Acta Cardiologica. 65(1). 89–92. 1 indexed citations

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Batty, Christopher & Robert Bridson. (2008). Accurate viscous free surfaces for buckling, coiling, and rotating liquids. 219–228. 65 indexed citations

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Bridson, Robert, et al.. (2007). Fluid simulation. 1–81. 62 indexed citations

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Bridson, Robert, et al.. (2007). Curl-noise for procedural fluid flow. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 26(99). 46–46. 4 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yongning & Robert Bridson. (2005). Animating sand as a fluid. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 24(3). 965–972. 502 indexed citations breakdown →

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Teran, Joseph, et al.. (2005). Adaptive physics based tetrahedral mesh generation using level sets. Engineering With Computers. 21(1). 2–18. 45 indexed citations

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Bridson, Robert, Ronald Fedkiw, & John E. Anderson. (2005). Robust treatment of collisions, contact and friction for cloth animation. 2–2. 74 indexed citations

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Bridson, Robert, et al.. (2003). Simulation of clothing with folds and wrinkles. 28–36. 277 indexed citations

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Bridson, Robert, et al.. (2003). A Crystalline, Red Green Strategy for Meshing Highly Deformable Objects with Tetrahedra.. IMR. 103–114. 93 indexed citations

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Bridson, Robert & Wei-Pai Tang. (2000). Refining an approximate inverse. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 123(1-2). 293–306. 14 indexed citations

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