Melting and Flowing of Viscous Volumes

Xiaoming Wei, Wei Luo, Arie E. Kaufman

na - 2003

Abstract

We present a simple, linear 3D cellular automata approach for animatingthe melting process of solid volumetric models. Accuratemodelling of object melting usually requires complicated physicalsimulations of heat transfer and phase transition from solid to liquid.Instead, we propose a simplified model to describe the meltingbehaviors of highly viscous objects, such as wax, lava, plastic,metal and chocolate. We simulate the process by which a volumetricsolid transforms into a viscous liquid as the amount of heat itaccumulates on its surface reaches a certain temperature. We thenanimate smooth fluid behavior using a cellular automata. The dynamicvolume data is rendered directly on texture mapping hardwareto achieve an interactive speed.

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@Article {WLK03,
  author       = "Wei, Xiaoming and Luo, Wei and Kaufman, Arie E.",
  title        = "Melting and Flowing of Viscous Volumes",
  booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2003)",
  journal      = "na",
  year         = "2003",
  publisher    = "IEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, USA",
  keywords     = "Object Melting, Cellular Automata, NaturalPhenomena Modelling",
  url          = "http://cvc.cs.stonybrook.edu/Publications/2003/WLK03"
}

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