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Fast Volume Rendering and Animation of Amorphous Phenomena

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Virtual environment technology, such as flight simulators, medical simulators and games, is making vast steps in realism and speed. For convincing interactive environments, gaseous effects, such as fire, dust and smoke, are needed. To achieve this realism, we have several design goals we wish to meet:

  • Animation must support real-time applications;

  • The method should be able to represent a variety of phenomena;

  • The effect must occupy three-dimensional space;

  • Other objects in the environment must be able to interact with the effect;

  • A variety of shapes should be supported;

  • The basic shape should allow for easy deformations or propagation.

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  1. Scott A. King
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK

    Min Chen BSc, PhD

  2. Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Arie E. Kaufman BSc, MSc, PhD

  3. Insight Therapeutics, TOR Systems, Hasivim 7, PO Box 7779, 49170, Petach Tikva, Israel

    Roni Yagel BSc, MSc, PhD

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King, S.A., Crawfis, R.A., Reid, W. (2000). Fast Volume Rendering and Animation of Amorphous Phenomena. In: Chen, M., Kaufman, A.E., Yagel, R. (eds) Volume Graphics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0737-8_14

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