Animation and Control of Breaking Waves
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Date
2004
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Controlling fluids is still an open and challenging problem in fluid animation. In this paper we develop a novel fluid animation control approach and we present its application to controlling breaking waves. In our Slice Method framework an animator defines the shape of a breaking wave at a desired moment in its evolution based on a library of breaking waves. Our system computes then the subsequent dynamics with the aid of a 3D Navier-Stokes solver. The wave dynamics previous to the moment the animator exerts control can also be generated based on the wave library. The animator is thus enabled to obtain a full animation of a breaking wave while controlling the shape and the timing of the breaking. An additional advantage of the method is that it provides a significantly faster method for obtaining the full 3D breaking wave evolution compared to starting the simulation at an early stage and using solely the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. We present a series of 2D and 3D breaking wave animations to demonstrate the power of the method.
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@inproceedings{:10.2312/SCA/SCA04/315-324,
booktitle = {Symposium on Computer Animation},
editor = {R. Boulic and D. K. Pai},
title = {{Animation and Control of Breaking Waves}},
author = {Mihalef, Viorel and Metaxas, Dimitris and Sussman, Mark},
year = {2004},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1727-5288},
ISBN = {3-905673-14-2},
DOI = {/10.2312/SCA/SCA04/315-324}
}