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Conference PaperKAUST Department
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) DivisionComputer Science Program
Date
2017-11-22Online Publication Date
2017-11-22Print Publication Date
2017-11-20Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/626814
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We present a novel method for the combustion of botanical tree models. Tree models are represented as connected particles for the branching structure and a polygonal surface mesh for the combustion. Each particle stores biological and physical attributes that drive the kinetic behavior of a plant and the exothermic reaction of the combustion. Coupled with realistic physics for rods, the particles enable dynamic branch motions. We model material properties, such as moisture and charring behavior, and associate them with individual particles. The combustion is efficiently processed in the surface domain of the tree model on a polygonal mesh. A user can dynamically interact with the model by initiating fires and by inducing stress on branches. The flames realistically propagate through the tree model by consuming the available resources. Our method runs at interactive rates and supports multiple tree instances in parallel. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach through numerous examples and evaluate its plausibility against the combustion of real wood samples.Citation
Pirk S, Jarząbek M, Hädrich T, Michels DL, Palubicki W (2017) Interactive wood combustion for botanical tree models. ACM Transactions on Graphics 36: 1–12. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3130800.3130814.Sponsors
The authors are grateful to Xiangmin Jiao and David E. Keyes for helpful discussions. Moreover, the reviewers' valuable comments that improved the manuscript are gratefully acknowledged. The work was supported by the NSF grant CCF-1514305, KAUST's baseline funding, and the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication (MPC-VCC) funded by Stanford University and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany (grants FKZ-01IMC01 and FKZ-01IM10001).Journal
ACM Transactions on GraphicsConference/Event name
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference, SA 2017Additional Links
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3130800.3130814ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1145/3130800.3130814