Today I read a paper titled “Physically-based particle simulation and visualization of pastes and gels”
The abstract is:
This paper is focused on the question of simulation and visualiza- tion of 3D gel and paste dynamic effects
In a first part, we introduce a 3D physically based particle (or mass-interaction) model, with a small number of masses and few powerful interaction parameters, which is able to generate the dynamic features of both gels and pastes
This model proves that the 3D mass-interaction method is relevant for the simulation of such phenomena, without an explicit knowledge of their underly- ing physics
In a second part, we expose an original rendering process, the Flow Structuring Method that enhances the dynamic properties of the simulation and offers a realistic visualization
This process ignores all the properties of the underlying physical model
It leads to a reconstruction of the spatial structure of the gel (or paste) flow only through an analysis of the output of the simula- tion which is a set of unorganized points moving in a 3D space
Finally, the paper presents realistic renderings obtained by using implicit surfaces and ray-tracing techniques on the Structured Flow previously obtained