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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTA.2009.16A.5.307

Modeling and Rendering of Clouds for Real-time Flight Simulation  

Do, Joo-Young (경북대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Baek, Nak-Hoon (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부)
Lee, Chang-Woo ((주)케이오지)
Ryu, Wan-Woo (경북대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartA / v.16A, no.5, 2009 , pp. 307-318 More about this Journal
Abstract
Modeling and rendering of atmospheric phenomena such as clouds is one of most difficult research themes in the field of computer graphics, mainly due to its complexity, huge volume, ubiquitousness, etc. In this paper, we represent a system for real-time modeling and rendering of clouds, mainly aiming at the computer games and flight simulation applications. Our implementation generates various kinds of clouds including cirrus, stratus, and cumulus, through intuitive real-timeuser interactions. Then, additional details are automatically attached to them, using our own methods based on meta-balls or hierarchical spherical particles. After processing multiple scattering and anisotropic scattering, resulting particles are rendered into billboards, to finally achieve real-time processing.
Keywords
Clouds; Rendering; Modeling; Flight Simulation; Metaball; Atmospheric Phenomena; Natural Phenomena; Hierarchical Particles; Real-Time;
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