The artist, Latvian-born Vija Celmins, counts among the many who’ve turned a hand to depicting quotidian objects in astonishingly realistic ways. A cluster of their pieces, from an 8-foot-tall ...

Soft-body physics refers to the handling of deformable objects -- Unreal Engine 3's famous meat cube, the billowing cloth in Assassin's Creed, and in this case, a pickup truck being mushed into ...