Surface-based
EFFICIENT CLOUD VISUALISATION FOR ANIMATION APPLICATIONS
Andrzej Trembilski Andreas
Broßler
Abt. Visualisierung und Virtuelle Realität
Fraunhofer Institut für Graphische
Datenverarbeitung
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ABSTRACT
For the local TV presentation of
weather forecast data it is important to have high-quality and fast
visualisation of clouds. In this paper we present surface-based methods for the
high performance visualisation of clouds from data produced by a routine
meteorological weather simulation. Isosurfaces, which are originally too coarse
because of the data grid resolution are refined and deformed. The refined
geometry is used for a light simulation and transparency computation.
Keywords: Meteorological
visualisation, cloud modelling and visualisation, surface refinement.