Real‐time cartoon animation of smoke
Haitao He, Duanqing Xu · Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds · 2005
Abstract In this paper, we present a practical framework to generate cartoon style animations of smoke, which consists of two components: a smoke simulator and a rendering system. In the simulation stage, the smoke is modelled as a set of smoothed particles and the physical parameters such as velocity and force are defined on particles directly. The smoke is rendered in flicker‐free cartoon style with two‐tone shading and silhouettes. Both the simulation and rendering are intuitive and easy to implement. In the most moderate scale scene, an impressive cartoon animation is generated with about a thousand particles at real‐time frame rate. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.