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Animation and control of breaking waves

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Viorel Mihalef,

Dimitris Metaxas,

Mark SussmanAuthors Info & Claims

SCA '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation

Pages 315 - 324

https://doi.org/10.1145/1028523.1028565

Published: 27 August 2004 Publication History

Abstract

Controlling fluids is still an open and challenging problem in fluid animation. In this paper we develop a novel fluid animation control approach and we present its application to controlling breaking waves. In our <i>Slice Method</i> framework an animator defines the shape of a breaking wave at a desired moment in its evolution based on a library of breaking waves. Our system computes then the subsequent dynamics with the aid of a 3D Navier-Stokes solver. The wave dynamics previous to the moment the animator exerts control can also be generated based on the wave library. The animator is thus enabled to obtain a full animation of a breaking wave while controlling the shape and the timing of the breaking. An additional advantage of the method is that it provides a significantly faster method for obtaining the full 3D breaking wave evolution compared to starting the simulation at an early stage and using solely the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. We present a series of 2D and 3D breaking wave animations to demonstrate the power of the method.

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Animation and control of breaking waves
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation

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SCA '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation

August 2004

388 pages

ISBN:3905673142

Conference Chairs:
Norman Badler
University of Pennsylvania
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Mathieu Desbrun
University of Southern California
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Ronan Boulic,
Dinesh Pai

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
EUROGRAPHICS: The European Association for Computer Graphics

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Eurographics Association

Goslar, Germany

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Published: 27 August 2004

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