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Stefan Jeschke,

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ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 36, Issue 4

Article No.: 103, Pages 1 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/3072959.3073678

Published: 20 July 2017 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a method for simulating water surface waves as a displacement field on a 2D domain. Our method relies on Lagrangian particles that carry packets of water wave energy; each packet carries information about an entire group of wave trains, as opposed to only a single wave crest. Our approach is unconditionally stable and can simulate high resolution geometric details. This approach also presents a straightforward interface for artistic control, because it is essentially a particle system with intuitive parameters like wavelength and amplitude. Our implementation parallelizes well and runs in real time for moderately challenging scenarios.

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Water wave packets
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
      1. Physical simulation
  2. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation types and techniques
      1. Real-time simulation
      2. Simulation by animation

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ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 36, Issue 4

August 2017

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DOI:10.1145/3072959

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