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Rapid sketch modeling of clouds

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Antoine Bouthors,

Marie-Paule CaniAuthors Info & Claims

SBM'08: Proceedings of the Fifth Eurographics conference on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling

Pages 113 - 118

Published: 11 June 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Clouds are an important visual element of any natural scene and computer artists often wish to create specific cloud shapes (for example in the film Amélie, as depicted in Fig 1). We describe a sketch based interface for modeling cumulous clouds. This interface allows rapid construction of a 3D cloud surface representation (mesh) using an underlying point based implicit surface representation. This mesh is rendered using the technique [BNM*08], resulting in a realtime cloud modeling and rendering system.

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Index Terms

Rapid sketch modeling of clouds
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Shape modeling
2. Theory of computation
  1. Randomness, geometry and discrete structures
    1. Computational geometry

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SBM'08: Proceedings of the Fifth Eurographics conference on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling

June 2008

182 pages

ISBN:9783905674071

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INRIA: INRIA Rhône-Alpes
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EUROGRAPHICS: The European Association for Computer Graphics

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