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text: "The appearance of simulated natural phenomena heavily depends on the way
surfaces are textured. However, applying texture maps to dynamic deformable surfaces
presents a significant challenge, due to ever-shifting differences in length scales
involved. When these surfaces move and advect the texture along with them, their
final appearance degrades as deformed regions dramatically distort their texture
map. Modifications to the texture directly at the pixel level in response to the
deformation may introduce ghosting artifacts and look unnatural. In the real world,
the appearance of surface details on a deforming material changes through the
interplay of physical processes such as rupturing, exposure of internal structure,
or wrinkling. Motivated by these behaviors, in this work we explore how physical
principles can guide the texturing methods based on the measure of surface deformation.\r\nWe
present two novel wave-based procedural texturing algorithms which reproduce common
physical properties like advection and self-similarity, enabling the plausible
animation of deforming objects with extreme texture map distortions. Our algorithms
are fully procedural, require no actual physics simulation, and store no state
or history of deformation besides the input UV map, making them highly parallelizable
on the GPU and efficient enough for real-time applications. We show the versatility
of the method by animating physical phenomena with extreme deformations such as
flowing lava, stretching putty and outpouring sludge."
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acknowledgement: "We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments, the
members of the Visual Computing Group at ISTA for their feedback. We also thank
Jonathan Gagnon for their help with running the Lapped Textures codes and SideFX
for the Houdini Education software licenses.\r\nImages in Fig. 2 by Kisoulou and
Vultured on Unsplash, Michal Jarmoluk and Public Domain Pictures from Pixabay and
Hawai‘i Volcanoes NPS on flickr. This research was supported by the Scientific Service
Units (SSU) of ISTA through resources provided by Scientific Computing and was funded
in part by the European Union (ERC-2021-COG 101045083 CoDiNA)."
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apa: 'Kalinov, A., Ly, M., Hafner, C., & Wojtan, C. (n.d.). Physics-inspired
procedural texturing of extremely deformable surfaces. ACM Transactions on
Graphics. Los Angeles, CA, United States: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3811353'
chicago: Kalinov, Aleksei, Mickaël Ly, Christian Hafner, and Chris Wojtan. “Physics-Inspired
Procedural Texturing of Extremely Deformable Surfaces.” ACM Transactions on
Graphics. ACM, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1145/3811353.
ieee: A. Kalinov, M. Ly, C. Hafner, and C. Wojtan, “Physics-inspired procedural
texturing of extremely deformable surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics,
vol. 45, no. 4. ACM.
ista: Kalinov A, Ly M, Hafner C, Wojtan C. Physics-inspired procedural texturing
of extremely deformable surfaces. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 45(4), 154.
mla: Kalinov, Aleksei, et al. “Physics-Inspired Procedural Texturing of Extremely
Deformable Surfaces.” ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 45, no. 4, 154,
ACM, doi:10.1145/3811353.
short: A. Kalinov, M. Ly, C. Hafner, C. Wojtan, ACM Transactions on Graphics 45
(n.d.).
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