Modeling and animating gases with simulation features

  • Authors:
  • Joshua Schpok;William Dwyer;David S. Ebert

  • Affiliations:
  • Purdue University;Purdue University;Purdue University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In modeling natural phenomena, artists often compromise the benefits of direct control for the visual realism of physics-based simulation. For gases, Eulerian simulations traditionally provide realistic results, but a poor representation for artistically shaping the media. In our system, users work with a more intuitive set of continuously extracted features whose manipulation feeds back into the original simulation. This novel approach overcomes common control issues by providing modeling tools to manipulate high-level behavior in Eulerian simulations. We employ techniques in feature extraction, real-time gas simulation, and volume rendering to build an interactive system to sculpt three-dimensional flows.