Interactive fluid animation using particle dynamics simulation and pre-integrated volume rendering

Abstract

This paper proposes an interactive fluid animation using an enhanced particle dynamics simulation method with pre-integrated volume rendering. The particle dynamics simulation of fluid flow can be conducted in real-time using the Lennard-Jones model. The computational efficiency is achieved using small number of particles for representing a significant volume. To get a high-quality rendering image with small data, we use the pre-integrated volume rendering technique. Experimental results show that the proposed method can simulate and render the fluid motion at interactive speed with acceptable visual quality. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.