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Blowing in the wind

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Suzanne Yoakum-Stover,

Arie KaufmanAuthors Info & Claims

SCA '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation

Pages 75 - 85

Published: 26 July 2003 Publication History

Abstract

We present an approach for simulating the natural dynamics that emerge from the coupling of a flow field to lightweight, mildly deformable objects immersed within it. We model the flow field using a Lattice Boltzmann Model (LBM) extended with a subgrid model and accelerate the computation on commodity graphics hardware to achieve real-time simulations. We demonstrate our approach using soap bubbles and a feather blown by wind fields, yet our approach is general enough to apply to other light-weight objects. The soap bubbles illustrate Fresnel reflection, reveal the dynamics of the unseen flow field in which they travel, and display spherical harmonics in their undulations. The free feather floats and flutters in response to lift and drag forces. Our single bubble simulation allows the user to directly interact with the wind field and thereby influence the dynamics in real time.

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Blowing in the wind
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
    2. Shape modeling
2. Theory of computation
  1. Randomness, geometry and discrete structures
    1. Computational geometry

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SCA '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation

July 2003

387 pages

ISBN:1581136595

Conference Chairs:
Rick Parent
The Ohio State University
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Karan Singh
University of Toronto
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David Breen
California Institute of Technology
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Ming C. Lin
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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