  Physics-based simulation of mesh based domains remains a challenging task.
State-of-the-art techniques can produce realistic results but require expert
knowledge. A major bottleneck in many approaches is the step of integrating a
potential energy in order to compute velocities or displacements. Recently,
learning based method for physics-based simulation have sparked interest with
graph based approaches being a promising research direction. One of the
challenges for these methods is to generate models that are mesh independent
and generalize to different material properties. Moreover, the model should
also be able to react to unforeseen external forces like ubiquitous collisions.
Our contribution is based on a simple observation: evaluating forces is
computationally relatively cheap for traditional simulation methods and can be
computed in parallel in contrast to their integration. If we learn how a system
reacts to forces in general, irrespective of their origin, we can learn an
integrator that can predict state changes due to the total forces with high
generalization power. We effectively factor out the physical model behind
resulting forces by relying on an opaque force module. We demonstrate that this
idea leads to a learnable module that can be trained on basic internal forces
of small mesh patches and generalizes to different mesh typologies,
resolutions, material parameters and unseen forces like collisions at inference
time. Our proposed paradigm is general and can be used to model a variety of
physical phenomena. We focus our exposition on the detail enhancement of coarse
clothing geometry which has many applications including computer games, virtual
reality and virtual try-on.
