physics model

noun

1. a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude

Example Sentences

Feng said the simple physics model gets researchers most of the way there, then the computer optimization is able to account for complexities that the physics equations can’t handle.

From Los Angeles Times

The scientists came up with an “intuitive physics” model by integrating the same inherent knowledge that developmental psychologists think a baby is born with into an AI system.

From Scientific American

You can also use physics to model the flight of a tennis ball, and tennis players, if they are any good at all, are rapidly and unconsciously computing in that physics model to figure out where a certain shot is going to end up.

From Slate

No physics model—not even the most complex, nonlocal cellular automaton--can capture my rational and, yes, emotional motives for believing in free will, but that doesn’t mean these motives lack causal power.

From Scientific American

So who would dare to argue that a theoretical ‘social physics’ model — used, among other things, to predict the behaviour of plastic crystals — would do a worse job than pollsters and experts at predicting the results of political votes such as this year’s Brexit referendum and US presidential election?

From Nature