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August 02, 2006
Natural Phenomena
I was thinking about organizing a workshop on computer graphics for natural phenomena. You can imagine my delight when I discovered that one already exists. I was glad to find that it will be in Vienna this year, which is a beautiful city. But, I don't know if I have the time and money to visit Vienna this year, sadly.
These are some people in Natural Phenomena...
- David Ebert at Purdue
- Ron Fedkiw at Stanford (I saw some of, I presume, their fluids work at Siggraph 2006. That was hot).
- Not sure if he's on the program committee, but he's done some work in the area in the past. Oliver Deussen
There were two posters this year that were/are reasonably related to terrain
- City generation on terrain. You pick a rough road layout and it will do the rest.
- John Keyser. These guys had a terrain model for doing water-based erosion of terain. Here's a paper on terrain generation they wrote. The cool thing about their work is that it allows for water pooling and erosion due to the water pool exceeding the height of the basin. I thought their work was probably better than the images on their poster. The erosion looked like flash flood erosion though. They are working on methods for modeling plant motion, due to things like the wind, using a level of detail approach. I think that is an imp;ortant topic as well.
Posted by jones at August 2, 2006 02:39 PM
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