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- Title
Real-time Animation of Sand-Water Interaction.
- Authors
Rungjiratananon, Witawat; Szego, Zoltan; Kanamori, Yoshihiro; Nishita, Tomoyuki
- Abstract
Recent advances in physically-based simulations have made it possible to generate realistic animations. However, in the case of solid-fluid coupling, wetting effects have rarely been noticed despite their visual importance especially in interactions between fluids and granular materials. This paper presents a simple particle-based method to model the physical mechanism of wetness propagating through granular materials; Fluid particles are absorbed in the spaces between the granular particles and these wetted granular particles then stick together due to liquid bridges that are caused by surface tension and which will subsequently disappear when over-wetting occurs. Our method can handle these phenomena by introducing a wetness value for each granular particle and by integrating those aspects of behavior that are dependent on wetness into the simulation framework. Using this method, a GPU-based simulator can achieve highly dynamic animations that include wetting effects in real time.
- Subjects
COMPUTER simulation; SIMULATION methods &; models; COMPUTER art; ANIMATION (Cinematography); ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-generated imagery
- Publication
Computer Graphics Forum, 2008, Vol 27, Issue 7, p1887
- ISSN
0167-7055
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01336.x