Alex Pentland was once into geometric modeling of soft objects using superquadrics, which are the rotational solids of superellipses.[1] This was a reasonable i

Alex Pentland was once into geometric modeling of soft objects using superquadrics, which are the rotational solids of superellipses.[1] This was a reasonable idea around the time the Symbolics 3600 was a thing and GPUs barely existed. Once weighted skinning of skeletons was invented, that idea went away. I once wasted a few months trying to do analytical collision detection for superquadrics using an early symbolic mathematics system. Dead end. [1] https://superquadrics.com/ https://superquadrics.com/