Guiding of Smoke Animations Through Variational Coupling of Simulations at Different Resolutions

dc.contributor.authorNielsen, Michael B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorChristensen, Brian B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorZafar, Nafees Binen_US
dc.contributor.authorRoble, Dougen_US
dc.contributor.authorMuseth, Kenen_US
dc.contributor.editorEitan Grinspun and Jessica Hodginsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-18T11:50:49Z
dc.date.available2016-02-18T11:50:49Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractWe propose a novel approach to guiding of Eulerian-based smoke animations through coupling of simulations at different grid resolutions. Specifically we present a variational formulation that allows smoke animations to adopt the low-frequency features from a lower resolution simulation (or non-physical synthesis), while simultaneously developing higher frequencies. The overall motivation for this work is to address the fact that art-direction of smoke animations is notoriously tedious. Particularly a change in grid resolution can result in dramatic changes in the behavior of smoke animations, and existing methods for guiding either significantly lack high frequency detail or may result in undesired features developing over time. Provided that the bulk movement can be represented satisfactorily at low resolution, our technique effectively allows artists to prototype simulations at low resolution (where computations are fast) and subsequently add extra details without altering the overall look and feel . Our implementation is based on a customized multi-grid solver with memory-efficient data structures.en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersFluidsen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationEurographics/ ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animationen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/1599470.1599499en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-60558-610-6en_US
dc.identifier.issn1727-5288en_US
dc.identifier.pages217-226en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1145/1599470.1599499en_US
dc.publisherACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectComputer Graphics [I.3.7]en_US
dc.subjectAnimationen_US
dc.titleGuiding of Smoke Animations Through Variational Coupling of Simulations at Different Resolutionsen_US
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