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Thesis submitted at ÉTS

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Ava: After about three years, a master's thesis is in. Antoine has submitted his at ÉTS.

Andrew: Congratulations to him. What was it about?

Ava: Real-time simulation of surface wear. It sits where physical simulation, contact and graphics rendering meet. The topic on his CV is real-time surface wear in interactive physics simulations, with dynamic friction and textures.

Andrew: Wear as in things getting scuffed and worn down?

Ava: That's the idea. And the post ties it to the rest of his work. The contact model is friction that depends on direction and on the material pair, the same thread as his pull requests to IPC Toolkit. Another project, TrueMapData, reads height maps that describe real worn surfaces. And a third, MistubaVideo, turns recorded poses and surface fields into frames and video.

Andrew: So the thesis is the center of a few tools.

Ava: Pretty much. The work was also presented at GraphQuon in 2024 and 2025.

Andrew: And the thanks section?

Ava: Sheldon Andrews supervised the thesis. Seven other people are named for advice and help along the way, including Paul Kry and Mélissa Katz.

Andrew: Is the technical story coming?

Ava: Yes, a write-up on wear in texture space is coming soon. For now there's a thesis article with the current project overview. This post is the short announcement, and it links out to all of those.

Thesis submitted at ÉTS
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I submitted my master’s thesis at ÉTS. The work is real-time simulation of surface wear, at the meeting point of physical simulation, contact, and graphics rendering.

1. The degree in one line

Master’s degree in Information Technology Engineering (ÉTS program page[1]), August 2023 to September 2026. Thesis topic as it appears on the CV: real-time surface wear in interactive physics simulations, with dynamic friction and textures.

2. What the thesis connects to

3. Thanks

Sheldon Andrews supervised the thesis. Paul Kry, Yinchu Liu, Loïc Nassif, Nicolas Rosset, Quoc-Minh Ton-That, Alexandre Mercier-Aubin, and Mélissa Katz gave advice and help through the project.

The technical write-up on wear in texture space is coming soon. The thesis article has the current project overview.

Source: LinkedIn activity and the CV education entry.

References

  1. ÉTS program page. (). [Web page] www.etsmtl.ca.

References use this article’s publication date.