1987 Steven A. Coons award lecture
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
Computational plasma physics
Computer simulation using particles
Computer simulation using particles
Proceedings of the 18th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Splatting: a parallel, feed-forward volume rendering algorithm
Splatting: a parallel, feed-forward volume rendering algorithm
Turbulent wind fields for gaseous phenomena
SIGGRAPH '93 Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Digital image processing
Modeling the motion of a hot, turbulent gas
Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Subdivision schemes for fluid flow
Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Robust multigrid methods for nonsmooth coefficient elliptic linear systems
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics - Special issue on numerical analysis 2000 Vol. III: linear algebra
Multigrid
Interactive visualization of particle-in-cell simulations
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '00
Visualizing DIII-D Tokamak magnetic field lines
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '00
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Practical animation of liquids
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A physically-based night sky model
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Physically based modeling and animation of fire
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Animation and rendering of complex water surfaces
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Electromagnetics: Computational Methods and Considerations
IEEE Computational Science & Engineering
Visualization of Plasma Turbulence
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
SIGGRAPH '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Simulating the Aurora Borealis
PG '00 Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications
Smoke simulation for large scale phenomena
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers
Animating suspended particle explosions
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers
A Method for Modeling Clouds Based on Atmospheric Fluid Dynamics
PG '01 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications
Analytic methods for simulated light transport
Analytic methods for simulated light transport
Solution-Adaptive Magnetohydrodynamics for Space Plasmas: Sun-to-Earth Simulations
Computing in Science and Engineering
A parallel multigrid Poisson solver for fluids simulation on large grids
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
Visual simulation of aurora movement
SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Posters
Modeling of aurora borealis using the observed data
Proceedings of the 27th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
Interactive smoke simulation and rendering on the GPU
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry
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Simulating natural phenomena has always been a focal point for computer graphics research. Its importance goes beyond the production of appealing presentations, since research in this area can contribute to the scientific understanding of complex natural processes. The natural phenomena, known as the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis, are geomagnetic phenomena of impressive visual characteristics and remarkable scientific interest. Aurorae present a complex behavior that arises from interactions between plasma (hot, ionized gases composed of ions, electrons, and neutral atoms) and Earth's electromagnetic fields. Previous work on the visual simulation of auroral phenomena have focused on static physical models of their shape, modeled from primitives, like sine waves. In this article, we focus on the dynamic behavior of the aurora, and we present a physically-based model to perform 3D visual simulations. The model takes into account the physical parameters and processes directly associated with plasma flow, and can be extended to simulate the dynamics of other plasma phenomena as well as astrophysical phenomena. The partial differential equations associated with these processes are solved using a complete multigrid implementation of the electromagnetic interactions, leading to a simulation of the shape and motion of the auroral displays. In order to illustrate the applicability of our model, we provide simulation sequences rendered using a distributed forward mapping approach.