Sketch-based Dynamic Illustration of Fluid Systems

This paper presents a lightweight sketching system that enables interactive illustration of complex fluid systems. Users can sketch on a 2.5-dimensional (2.5D) canvas to design the shapes and connections of a fluid circuit. These input sketches are automatically analyzed and abstracted into a hydrau...

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Published in:ACM transactions on graphics 2011-12, Vol.30 (6), p.1-8
Main Authors: Zhu, Bo, Iwata, Michiaki, Haraguchi, Ryo, Ashihara, Takashi, Umetani, Nobuyuki, Igarashi, Takeo, Nakazawa, Kazuo
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:This paper presents a lightweight sketching system that enables interactive illustration of complex fluid systems. Users can sketch on a 2.5-dimensional (2.5D) canvas to design the shapes and connections of a fluid circuit. These input sketches are automatically analyzed and abstracted into a hydraulic graph, and a new hybrid fluid model is used in the background to enhance the illustrations. The system provides rich simple operations for users to edit the fluid system incrementally, and the new internal flow patterns can be simulated in real time. Our system is used to illustrate various fluid systems in medicine, biology, and engineering. We asked professional medical doctors to try our system and obtained positive feedback from them.
ISSN:0730-0301
1557-7368
DOI:10.1145/2070781.2024168