Projects sharing features with Bullet3

JoltPhysics is a high-performance C++ physics engine designed for multi-threaded simulation of 3D rigid bodies and soft bodies. It serves as a deterministic simulation framework, ensuring identical results across different platforms and architectures to support networked synchronization. The engine distinguishes itself through a focus on concurrent execution across multiple CPU cores to handle large numbers of active bodies. It provides specialized systems for vehicle physics, including wheeled and tracked models, as well as soft body physics for deformable objects and cloth. The simulation

planck.js is a 2D rigid body physics engine for JavaScript and HTML5, based on Box2D. It provides a framework for simulating physical interactions and calculating the motion of solid objects within a two-dimensional virtual environment. The engine is designed for cross-platform web gaming, enabling the implementation of rigid body dynamics across different web browsers and devices. The library manages simulation through a constraint-based physics solver and rigid body state management. It utilizes iterative impulse resolution, semi-implicit Euler integration, and dynamic AABB tree partitioni

Box2D is a 2D physics engine and rigid body simulator designed to compute collisions, forces, and joints in a two-dimensional plane. It functions as a collision detection library and a constraint-based physics solver that calculates the movement and interaction of solid objects using mass, friction, and restitution properties. The engine ensures consistency across different hardware architectures through a deterministic trigonometry implementation. It prevents high-speed objects from passing through boundaries using continuous collision detection and time-of-impact interpolation. The system

Chrono is a multi-physics simulation suite that functions as a multibody dynamics simulator, a finite element analysis tool, and a robotics simulation framework. It provides specialized solvers for fluid-solid interaction and distributed physics engines capable of synchronizing multiple agents across a network. The project features a dedicated pipeline for converting CAD assemblies into simulation-ready formats and integrates directly with robot operating systems to validate autonomous control logic and sensors. It differentiates itself through the use of WebAssembly for portable browser-base

LiquidFun is a 2D physics engine and game physics framework designed to calculate movement and collisions for rigid bodies and particle systems. It functions as a simulation tool for integrating real-time physical interactions and dynamics into interactive applications. The framework specifically provides a particle-based fluid simulator to model liquid dynamics, including splashing, displacement, and surface tension. It also includes a soft body physics simulator for creating deformable and elastic objects that react to physical forces. The engine covers a broad range of physical interactio

High-performance C++ multibody dynamics/physics library for simulating articulated biomechanical and mechanical systems like vehicles, robots, and the human skeleton.

PhysicsJS is a JavaScript physics engine and 2D rigid body simulator designed to calculate the collisions, constraints, and dynamics of physical bodies. It functions as a modular physics library for simulating the movement and interaction of circular bodies and convex polygons. The engine implements constraint-based dynamics to enforce distance and angle constraints between objects, enabling the creation of articulated structures and linked physics. It utilizes impulse-based resolution to handle collisions and prevent objects from passing through one another. The library provides capabilitie

AirSim is a high-fidelity simulation platform designed for the development and testing of autonomous vehicles. Built as a plugin for game engines, it provides a physics-based environment that models vehicle dynamics and sensor data, serving as a foundation for robotics research, computer vision training, and reinforcement learning. The platform distinguishes itself through its support for hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testing, allowing developers to validate control logic and firmware against real-world signals or concurrent processes. It offers extensive programmatic control

MuJoCo is a physics simulation engine designed for the dynamics of multi-joint articulated structures. It provides a computational framework for calculating the forces, velocities, and physical interactions of complex models within a virtual environment, supporting research in robotics, biomechanics, and machine learning. The engine utilizes a constraint-based dynamics solver and recursive algorithms to manage the motion of articulated systems. It includes a native graphical interface for real-time visualization, allowing users to inspect physical behaviors and contact dynamics as they occur.

mujoco_menagerie is a curated library of physical robot specifications and XML model definitions designed for standardized dynamics and contact simulation. It provides a collection of high-quality robot model files for humanoids, quadrupeds, and manipulators, alongside detailed kinematic and inertial parameters used to reproduce real-world robot behavior in virtual environments. The project serves as a repository of robotics simulation assets and MJCF model definitions optimized for accuracy. It includes standardized model libraries specifically for bipedal, quadrupedal, and humanoid hardware

CARLA is an autonomous driving simulator and research environment designed for developing and validating self-driving software. It functions as an urban traffic simulator that generates realistic vehicle and pedestrian behavior and as a synthetic sensor data generator producing LiDAR, Radar, and camera data. The platform distinguishes itself through its deep integration with robotics frameworks, specifically providing native connectivity to ROS2 nodes for robotic control and data processing. It supports the training of driving models via imitation and reinforcement learning within a controlle

Pinocchio is a multi-body dynamics engine and rigid body physics library designed for computing forward and inverse kinematics and dynamics for articulated rigid-body systems. It functions as a robot kinematics solver and model parser, enabling the analysis of complex robotic systems through kinematic and dynamic computations. The project distinguishes itself with specialized capabilities for constrained dynamics, including the calculation of contact impulses and centroidal momentum. It provides a parallel processing collision detection system for computing minimal distances between rigid bod

jetson-inference is a set of libraries and tools for executing optimized deep learning models on embedded GPU hardware. Its primary purpose is to enable real-time computer vision and AI inference at the edge with low latency and high throughput. The project distinguishes itself through high-performance streaming analytics and the ability to execute concurrent AI pipelines on auto-grade silicon. It provides specialized support for multi-sensor stream processing, utilizing zero-copy data transport to load camera frames directly into GPU memory. The codebase covers a broad surface of capabiliti

Openframework wrapper for box2d

Newton Dynamics is an integrated solution for real time simulation of physics environments.

A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library.

FlappySwift is a side-scrolling arcade game implementation built for Apple platforms. Developed using the Swift programming language, this 2D game project features a physics-based environment where a player controls a character to avoid obstacles. The project utilizes the SpriteKit framework to handle rigid body dynamics, gravitational forces, and sprite-based rendering. Game flow is managed through a state machine that controls transitions between the start menu, active gameplay, and game over screens. The implementation covers 2D physics simulation, including bounding-box collision detecti

OpenMoonray is a production-grade physically based rendering system and path-tracing engine. It simulates the physical behavior of light to generate high-fidelity photorealistic images and is compatible with Universal Scene Description files for visualizing complex 3D scenes and production pipelines. The system is designed as a distributed rendering framework, capable of splitting heavy computational workloads across multiple machines or cloud clusters to accelerate image generation. It integrates OpenColorIO for consistent color management across different display devices and color spaces.

LibGDX is a Java-based framework designed for cross-platform game development, enabling the creation and deployment of 2D and 3D games across desktop, mobile, and web environments from a single codebase. It functions as a comprehensive library that abstracts hardware-accelerated graphics, audio, input, and file system access, providing a unified interface for developers to manage game logic and application lifecycles. The framework distinguishes itself through a high-performance architecture that prioritizes efficiency and native interoperability. It utilizes a batch-oriented graphics pipelin

Cocos2d-x is a high-performance C++ game development framework designed for building and deploying interactive applications across mobile, desktop, and web platforms. It functions as a cross-platform game engine that utilizes an entity-component system to manage object lifecycles, behaviors, and spatial relationships within a unified codebase. The engine is distinguished by its specialized 2D graphics rendering pipeline, which is optimized for hardware-accelerated performance when displaying sprites, particle effects, and skeletal animations. It provides developers with low-level access to gr

This project is a parallel simulation engine and molecular dynamics simulator designed to model the physical movements of atoms and molecules. It functions as an interatomic potential framework for calculating forces between particles and a materials analysis tool for computing thermodynamic, structural, and transport properties of solids and fluids. The engine is distinguished by its high-performance computing capabilities, utilizing spatial-domain decomposition and message-passing interface communication to distribute workloads across processors. It supports multi-backend GPU acceleration v

Genesis World is an embodied AI simulation platform designed for training robotic agents through physics-based interactions. It centers on a multi-physics simulation engine that integrates rigid body, particle, and finite element method dynamics, supported by a parallel simulation kernel compiler that translates Python functions into optimized GPU and CPU kernels. The platform features a photorealistic robot renderer that utilizes path-tracing and Gaussian Splatting to generate synthetic training data. It includes a domain randomization framework to vary lighting and physical parameters acros

labelImg is a desktop image annotation tool and dataset preparation utility used to create labeled datasets for computer vision training. It provides a graphical interface for drawing bounding boxes around objects in images and assigning them class labels to build ground truth data for machine learning models. The software specifically supports the Pascal VOC XML annotation format, exporting image coordinates and class names into standard XML or text structures. It allows users to load predefined class lists from text files to standardize naming across an entire project. Beyond initial label

Keras-GAN is a collection of generative adversarial network implementations built with Keras for synthetic data generation and image manipulation. It provides frameworks for image-to-image translation, image inpainting, and neural image super-resolution. The library includes tools for learning disentangled latent space representations to control specific attributes of synthetic outputs. It also features capabilities for image domain translation using paired or unpaired data and the ability to fill corrupted or missing image parts by analyzing surrounding visual context. The project covers ge

Drake is a robotics simulation framework and control system modeling tool used for designing, simulating, and verifying the dynamics of complex robotic systems. It functions as a multibody dynamics simulator and a mathematical optimization library, providing a suite of algorithms for trajectory optimization and the simulation of articulated robots. The framework is distinguished by its block-diagram system for composing dynamical subsystems and its ability to formulate and solve diverse mathematical programs, including linear, quadratic, and nonconvex nonlinear problems. It supports specializ

Habitat-sim is a high-performance 3D simulation platform designed for training and benchmarking embodied AI agents within photorealistic indoor and outdoor environments. It serves as a simulator for AI and robotics, providing a system for generating synthetic data and simulating physical interactions. The project is distinguished by a native C++ core that enables high-throughput simulation and a rendering pipeline using physically based rendering and baked global illumination. It features a navigation system based on pre-computed navigation meshes to ensure collision-free traversal and a rigi