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I love it when a cloud comes together

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One of the action sequences in the film The A-Team takes place within a growing system of storm clouds. The story plot required the creation of a fully 3D environment of clouds covering tens of kilometers of evolving storm, modeled and simulated at high resolution because the camera and story elements are embedded within it. The cloud system covered approximately 20x10x5 kilometers, at a resolution as small at 0.1 meters. A variety of clouds types were modeled, corresponding to the different cloud taxonomies in different regions of a storm supercell. Individual cloud structure was controlled and directed down to arbitrarily fine spatial detail. This talk discusses the software tools developed to model, simulate, and render this complex, high resolution cloud system.

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SIGGRAPH '10: ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Talks
July 2010
56 pages
ISBN:9781450303941
DOI:10.1145/1837026

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Published: 26 July 2010

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