Every grain of sand: Method efficiently renders massive assemblies of granular materials
Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 10:01
in Physics & Chemistry
Be it sand, snow or a bowl of spices, rendering massive aggregations of granular materials is a challenge for animators. A new method developed by researchers from Disney Research, ETH Zurich and Dartmouth College, however, makes it possible to simulate the appearance of a variety of grains or their mixtures, and to do so with unprecedented computational efficiency.