I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain
Monday, 9 August
3:45 - 5:30 pm
Room 502A
Session Chair: André Gueziec, Triangle Software LLC

A Physically Based Model of Ice Freezing animations are becoming popular, making appearances in "X-Men 2" and "The Hulk." However, modeling methods for freezing remain ad-hoc. This sketch presents a physical model for ice. Theodore Kim University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill kim (at) cs.unc.edu Michael Henson Ming C. Lin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rendering Falling Rain and Snow A novel technique for realistically and efficiently rendering precipitation with moving cameras. The technique maps textures onto a double cone and translates and elongates them using hardware texture transforms. Niniane Wang Google Inc. niniane (at) ofb.net Bretton Wade Microsoft Corporation
Stormy Weather Development of a system for simulating and rendering photorealistic stormy skies with roiling clouds, lightning, and rain for "Van Helsing." Willi Geiger Industrial Light + Magic wgeiger (at) ilm.com Simon Eves Robert Hoffmeister Masi Oka Industrial Light + Magic
Image-Based Tomographic Reconstruction of Flames A method for volumetric modeling and rendering of flames based on visual hull restricted computerized tomography on real-world multi-video sequences. Ivo Ihrke Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik ihrke (at) mpi-sb.mpg.de Marcus Magnor Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik