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Towards fast, believable real-time rendering of burning objects in video games

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Dhanyu Amarasinghe,

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FDG '11: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games

Pages 256 - 258

https://doi.org/10.1145/2159365.2159404

Published: 29 June 2011 Publication History

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We present a framework for emulating the deformation and consumption of polygonal models under combustion while generating procedural fire. Our focus is on achieving the best visual effects possible while maximizing computation speed so that the processing power is available for other tasks in video games. We have implemented and tested our method on a relatively modest GPU using CUDA. Our experiments suggest that our method gives a believable rendering of the effects of fire while using only a small fraction of CPU and GPU resources.

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FDG '11: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games

June 2011

356 pages

ISBN:9781450308045

DOI:10.1145/2159365

Conference Chair:
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Teesside University, UK
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Polytechnic Institute of New York University
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Charles Rich
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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