Shape-controlled flow of smoke
Yongxia Zhou, Kangjian Wang, Lingmin He, Juan Wang · 2011
We present a novel method to efficiently control the smoke's target shape and keep smoke alive. Given an arbitrary object's shape represented by a geometric model, our method can generate an animation in which smoke quickly forms the shape. It looks like a cloud of moving smoke that fundamentally maintains the shape and fluid-like behavior. By adding some control forces to the physics-based free flow, the smoke behavior can be controlled well while flowing.