Malin Jonsson
University of Gävle, Sweden
Anders Hast
Creative Media Lab, University of Gävle, Sweden
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Published in: Special Effects and Rendering. Proceedings from SIGRAD 2002; Linköpings universitet; Norrköping; Sweden; November 28th and 29th; 2002
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 7:3, p. 17-22
Published: 2002-11-28
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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Several methods for rendering and modeling water have been made and a few of them address the natural phenomenon of water droplets flow. As far as we know; none of those methods have used bump maps in order to simulate the flow of a droplet on structured surfaces. The normals of the bump map; that describes the geometry of the micro structured surface; are used in the flow computation of the droplets. As a result; the water droplets will meander down on the surface as if it has a micro structure. Existing models were not suitable for this purpose. Therefore; a new model is proposed in this paper. The droplet will also leave a trail; which is produced by changing the background texture on the surface. This method will not present a physically correct simulation of water droplets flow on a structured surface. However; it will produce a physically plausible real-time animation.
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