


Forest Fire Simulation
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Geoffrey Y.Gardner
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- Biography : Dr Geoffrey Y. Gardner has been a Senoir Staff Scientist at Northrop Grumman Data Systems Division since 1986. He has been working in the field of Computer Graphics since 1976.
Institute(s)
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Northrop Grumman Data
- Country : USA
Project : Data Systems Division Technology Department
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Description
Forest Fire propagation is simulated using fractal ellipsoids driven by a heurisyic dynamic model. An elliptical region of fire is defined oriented in a specified wind direction of the wind and is proportional to its speed. Fire, smoke and trees are modeled with ellipsoids whose shading and translucence are modulated by a 3-D fractal texture function, which simulates a naturally- random Gaussian mass distribution in each ellipsoid. All smoke ellipsoids are textured with the same pattern which moves downwind with the ellipsoids. Fire flicker is simulated by moving a second fractal pattern rapidly over stationary fire ellipsoids.
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Date : 92
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Category : Simulation
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Keys Words :
- Computer Graphics
- Fractal Ellipsoids
- Dynamic simulation
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Technical Information
This simulation was performed using proprietary software written in Fortran running on a Silicon Graphics Personal IRIS 4D/25G workstation.More Information...
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