Device, method, and program for crash simulation

A method for analyzing deformation in an object, the method comprising:

• acquiring coordinate data along a time series at a plurality of points in the object;
• calculating an amount of deformation feature indicating an amount of deformation in the object over time from the coordinate data at the plurality of points at each time in the time series;
• and
• setting the time series data for the amount of deformation feature as data for specifying a deformed state of the object, associating said data with the object, and storing the associated data.

A non-transitory computer program product for analyzing deformation in an object, said non-transitory computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions readable/executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:

• acquiring coordinate data along a time series at a plurality of points in the object;
• calculating an amount of deformation feature indicating an amount of deformation in the object over time from the coordinate data at the plurality of points at each time in the time series;
• and
• setting the time series data for the amount of deformation feature as data for specifying a deformed state of the object, associating said data with the object, and storing the associated data.