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conference   : SIGGRAPH 2010, Los Angeles, USA, 25-29 July, 2010
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year         : 2010
month        : July
title        : Physics-Inspired Topology Changes for Thin Fluid Features
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author       : Chris Wojtan, Nils Thürey, Markus Gross, Greg Turk
booktitle    : Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2010
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language     : english
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abstract     : We propose a mesh-based surface tracking method for fluid animation that both preserves fine surface details and robustly adjusts the topology of the surface in the presence of arbitrarily thin features like sheets and strands. We replace traditional re-sampling methods with a convex hull method for connecting surface features during topological changes. This technique permits arbitrarily thin fluid features with minimal re-sampling errors by reusing points from the original surface. We further reduce re-sampling artifacts with a subdivision-based mesh-stitching algorithm, and we use a higher order interpolating subdivision scheme to determine the location of any newly-created vertices. The resulting algorithm efficiently produces detailed fluid surfaces with arbitrarily thin features while maintaining a consistent topology with the underlying fluid simulation.