A real-time cloud modeling, rendering, and animation system

Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, SCA 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Schpok, Joshua ^a   Simons, Joseph ^a   Ebert, David S ^a   Hansen, Charles ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud animation; Cloud modeling; Procedural animation; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VOLUME RENDERING;

CLOUD MODELING; CONSUMER GRAPHICS HARDWARE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH LEVEL INTERFACE; INTERACTIVE DESIGN; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; PROCEDURAL ANIMATION; SKELETAL STRUCTURES;

ANIMATION;

EID: 84986301749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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