Simulating the aurora borealis

Proceedings - Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Baranoski, G V G ^a   Rokne, J G ^b   Shirley, P ^a   Trondsen, T ^b   Bastos, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Atmosphere; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Displays; Electrons; Physics; Sun

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPLAY DEVICES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTRONS; PHYSICS; SUN;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CURTAIN-LIKE VOLUME; HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON; NATURAL PHENOMENA; RESEARCH PURPOSE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC IMAGES;

LIGHT;

EID: 84949498483     PISSN: 15504085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCCGA.2000.883852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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