Public Title Interactive Cloud Modeling and Animation Software for Visual Effects Applications Division Lead Inventor Schpok, Joshua Public Description Amorphous phenomena, like clouds and dust, elude traditional modeling techniques with their ‎peculiar patterns of intricate, ever-changing volume-filling microstructures. Modeling these ‎structures has been a difficult task that has been addressed in many different ways. Current ‎techniques can produce high quality images but the image generation tends to be slow. Inventors at ‎Purdue University have developed an intuitive, interactive, physics-based system to artistically ‎model, animate, and render visually convincing volumetric clouds using modern consumer graphics ‎hardware. The animation of the implicit skeletal structures and independent transformation of ‎octaves of noise emulate various environmental conditions. The resulting interactive design, ‎rendering, and animation system produces perceptually convincing volumetric cloud models in real-‎time that can be used in interactive systems.‎ Patent Status Public References Key Words Manager Joseph Trebley Email jptrebley@prf.org Telephone Fax 765-496-1277   Back to List