License¶

IPC Toolkit is released under an MIT license, and all of its dependencies are under similar permissive licenses (MIT, Apache, or MPL).

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Copyright (c) 2020 IPC-Sim

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Citation¶

IPC Toolkit is created and maintained by academics: citations let us know our work is having impact! Please cite the IPC Toolkit or otherwise give a shout-out if and when it contributes to published works.

@software{ipc_toolkit,
    author = {Zachary Ferguson and others},
    title = {{IPC Toolkit}},
    url = {https://github.com/ipc-sim/ipc-toolkit},
    year = {2020},
}

Additionally, you can cite the original IPC paper:

@article{Li2020IPC,
    author = {Minchen Li and Zachary Ferguson and Teseo Schneider and Timothy Langlois and
        Denis Zorin and Daniele Panozzo and Chenfanfu Jiang and Danny M. Kaufman},
    title = {Incremental Potential Contact: Intersection- and Inversion-free Large Deformation Dynamics},
    journal = {{ACM} Trans. Graph. (SIGGRAPH)},
    year = {2020},
    volume = {39},
    number = {4},
    articleno = {49}
}