Article

Simulation of bubbles

Authors:

Jean-Claude PaulAuthors Info & Claims

SCA '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation

Pages 325 - 333

Published: 02 September 2006 Publication History

Abstract

We present a novel framework based on a continuous fluid simulator for general simulation of realistic bubbles, with which we can handle as many significant dynamic bubble effects as possible. To capture nature of the very thin liquid film of bubbles, we have developed a regional level set method allowing multi-manifold interface tracking. The regional level set method is based on the definitions of regional distance and its five operators, which makes it very easy to implement. We can reconstruct an implicit surface of liquid film with arbitrary thickness from the representation of regional level set functions. To overcome the numerical instability caused by surface tension, we exploit a new semi-implicit surface tension model which is unconditionally stable and makes the simulation of surface tension dominated phenomena much more efficient. An approximated film thickness evolution model is proposed to control the bubble's lifecycle. All these new techniques combine into a general framework that can produce various realistic dynamic effects of bubbles.

References

[1]

{Ari05} Arikan O.: Pixie: Photorealistic renderer (2005). http://sourceforge.net/projects/pixie.

[2]

{BF95} Bloomenthal J., Ferguson K.: Polygonization of non-manifold implicit surfaces. In Proc. SIGGRAPH '95 (1995), pp. 309--316.

Digital Library

[3]

{EMF02} Enright D., Marschner S., Fedkiw R.: Animation and rendering of complex water surfaces. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH' 02) 21, 3 (2002), 736--744.

Digital Library

[4]

{FF01} Foster N., Fedkiw R.: Practical animation of liquids. In Proc. SIGGRAPH '01 (2001), pp. 23--30.

Digital Library

[5]

{FM96} Foster N., Metaxes D.: Realistic animation of liquids. Graphical Models and Image Processing 58 (1996), pp. 471--483.

Digital Library

[6]

{GBO04} Goktekin T. G., Bargteil A. W., O'Brien J. F.: A method for animating viscoelastic fluids. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '04 (2004), pp. 463--468.

Digital Library

[7]

{GH04} Greenwood S., House D.: Better with bubbles: Enhancing the visual realism of simulated fluid. In Proc. 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (Aug. 2004), pp. 287--296.

Digital Library

[8]

{HK03} Hong J., Kim C.: Animation of bubbles in liquid. In Proc. Eurographics '03 (2003), pp. 253--262.

[9]

{HK05} Hong J., Kim C.: Discontinuous fluids. In Proc. SIGGRAPH '05 (2005), pp. 915--920.

Digital Library

[10]

{Hys05} Hysing S.: A new implicit surface tension implementation for interfacial flows. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 2005, (in press).

[11]

{KVG02} Kück H., Vogelgsang C., Greiner G.: Simulation and rendering of liquid foams. In Proc. Graphics Interface '02 (2002), pp. 81--88.

[12]

{LC87} Lorensen W. E., Cline H. E.: Marching Cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm. In International Conference on Computer Graph-ics and Interactive Techniques (1987), pp. 163--169.

Digital Library

[13]

{LGF04} Losasso F., Gibou F., Fedkiw R.: Simulating water and smoke with an octree data structure. In Proc. SIGGRAPH '04 (2004), pp. 457--462.

Digital Library

[14]

{Rom01} Roman D.: Animation of soap bubble dynamics, cluster formation and collision. Computer Graphics Forum 20, 3 (Sept. 2001), C67-C75. (Proc. Eurographics' 2001).

[15]

{SSK05} Song O., Shin H., Ko H.: Stable but Non-Dissipative Water. ACM Transactions on Graphics 11, 2 (2005), 1--16.

Digital Library

[16]

{Sta99} Stam J.: Stable fluids. In Proc. SIGGRAPH '99 (1999), pp. 121--128.

Digital Library

[17]

{WH99} Weaire D., Hutzler S.: The physics of foams. Oxford, 1999.

[18]

{WMT05} Wang H., Mucha P. J., Turk G: Water Drops on Surfaces. In Proc. SIGGRAPH '05 (2005), pp. 921--929.

Digital Library

[19]

{XZ03} Xu J., Zhao H.: An Eulerian Formulation for Solving Partial Differential Equations along a Moving Interface. Journal of Scientific Computing 19, n 1--3 (Dec. 2003), 573--594.

Digital Library

[20]

{YKI02} Yamazaki S., Kase K., Ikeuchi K.: Non-manifold Implicit Surfaces Based on Discontinuous Implicitization and Polygonization. In Proc. Geometric Modeling and Processing 2002 (July 2002), pp. 138--146.

Digital Library

Cited By

Tao NRuan LDeng YZhu BWang BChen B(2024)A Vortex Particle-on-Mesh Method for Soap Film SimulationACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/365816543:4(1-14)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3658165
Li XNi XZhu BWang BChen B(2023)GARM-LS: A Gradient-Augmented Reference-Map Method for Level-Set Fluid SimulationACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/361837742:6(1-20)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3618377
Xing JRuan LWang BZhu BChen B(2022)Position-Based Surface Tension FlowACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/3550454.355547641:6(1-12)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3550454.3555476
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Simulation of bubbles
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
      1. Physical simulation
    2. Shape modeling
  2. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation types and techniques
      1. Simulation by animation
2. Mathematics of computing
  1. Continuous mathematics
    1. Topology
      1. Geometric topology

Recommendations

Double bubbles sans toil and trouble: discrete circulation-preserving vortex sheets for soap films and foams

Simulating the delightful dynamics of soap films, bubbles, and foams has traditionally required the use of a fully three-dimensional many-phase Navier-Stokes solver, even though their visual appearance is completely dominated by the thin liquid surface. ...
Acoustic Methods for Assessment of Bubbles Produced by Marine Plants
Particle-based simulation of bubbles in water–solid interaction

In this paper, a particle-based multiphase method for creating realistic animations of bubbles in water–solid interaction is presented. To generate bubbles from gas dissolved in the water on the fly, we propose an approximate model for the creation of ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

SCA '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation

September 2006

370 pages

ISBN:3905673347

General Chairs:
Carol O'Sullivan
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
,
Fred Pighin
Industrial Light and Magic, USA

Sponsors

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

Publisher

Eurographics Association

Goslar, Germany

Publication History

Published: 02 September 2006

Check for updates

Qualifiers

Article

Conference

SCA06

Sponsor:

SIGGRAPH
EUROGRAPHICS

SCA06: The ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation

September 2 - 4, 2006

Vienna, Austria

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 183 of 487 submissions, 38%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

48
Total Citations
View Citations
1,132
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)33
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)5

Reflects downloads up to 05 Mar 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Tao NRuan LDeng YZhu BWang BChen B(2024)A Vortex Particle-on-Mesh Method for Soap Film SimulationACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/365816543:4(1-14)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3658165
Li XNi XZhu BWang BChen B(2023)GARM-LS: A Gradient-Augmented Reference-Map Method for Level-Set Fluid SimulationACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/361837742:6(1-20)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3618377
Xing JRuan LWang BZhu BChen B(2022)Position-Based Surface Tension FlowACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/3550454.355547641:6(1-12)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3550454.3555476
Wang HJin YLuo AYang XZhu B(2020)Codimensional surface tension flow using moving-least-squares particlesACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/3386569.339248739:4(42:1-42:14)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386569.3392487
Ando RBatty C(2020)A practical octree liquid simulator with adaptive surface resolutionACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/3386569.339246039:4(32:1-32:17)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386569.3392460
Goldade RAanjaneya MBatty C(2020)Constraint bubbles and affine regionsACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/3386569.339245539:4(43:1-43:15)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386569.3392455
Ni XZhu BWang BChen B(2020)A level-set method for magnetic substance simulationACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/3386569.339244539:4(29:1-29:13)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386569.3392445
Ishida SSynak PNarita FHachisuka TWojtan C(2020)A model for soap film dynamics with evolving thicknessACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/3386569.339240539:4(31:1-31:11)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386569.3392405
Lyu LCao WWu EYang ZJorge JKim JVan Eyken HGlencross MMitchell KNarumi T(2019)Extended Narrow Band Weighted MultiFLIP for Two-Phase Liquid SimulationProceedings of the 17th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry10.1145/3359997.3365685(1-8)Online publication date: 14-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359997.3365685
Ishida SYamamoto MAndo RHachisuka T(2017)A hyperbolic geometric flow for evolving films and foamsACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/3130800.313083536:6(1-11)Online publication date: 20-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3130800.3130835
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten