Wave Curves: Simulating Lagrangian water waves on dynamically deforming surfaces

Tomas Skrivan, Andreas Soderstrom, John Johansson, Christoph Sprenger, Ken Museth, Chris Wojtan

We propose a method to enhance the visual detail of a water surface simula-tion. Our method works as a post-processing step which takes a simulationas input and increases its apparent resolution by simulating many detailedLagrangian water waves on top of it. We extend linear water wave theoryto work in non-planar domains which deform over time, and we discretizethe theory using Lagrangian wave packets attached to spline curves. Themethod is numerically stable and trivially parallelizable, and it produceshigh frequency ripples with dispersive wave-like behaviors customized tothe underlying fluid simulation.

Wave Curves: Simulating Lagrangian water waves on dynamically deforming surfaces

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