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Tree Animation for A 3D Interactive Visualization System For Hurricane Impacts

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Tree Animation for A 3D Interactive Visualization System For Hurricane Impacts
This paper describes an implementation of vertex weighting for real-time animation of 3D trees as a result of wind force and direction. This method improves over similar techniques because it incorporates individual branch animation on 3D models, whereas previous works perform animations on the model as a whole or use planar billboards to visualize the tree. Our tree animation is used in an interactive system that visualizes the effects caused by a hurricane’s impact on a virtual city. The system uses models created with 3D Studio Max and the animations are implemented in OpenGL and the nVidia Cg shader language.
Peter Singh, Na Zhao, Shu-Ching Chen, Keqi Zhang
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where ICMCS
Authors Peter Singh, Na Zhao, Shu-Ching Chen, Keqi Zhang
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