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1. Interactive simulation of plume and pyroclastic volcanic ejections

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Maud Lastic, Damien Rohmer, Guillaume Cordonnier, Claude Jaupart, Fabrice Neyret, Marie-Paule Cani, Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École polytechnique [Palaiseau] (LIX), École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), GRAPHics and DEsign with hEterogeneous COntent (GRAPHDECO), Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (CRISAM), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP (UMR_7154)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Models and Algorithms for Visualization and Rendering (MAVERICK), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), and Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

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Computer animation, Procedural models, Natural phenomena, [INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Science Applications
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International audience; We propose an interactive animation method for the ejection of gas and ashes mixtures in volcano eruption. Our novel, layered solution combines a coarse-grain, physically-based simulation of the ejection dynamics with a consistent, procedural animation of multi-resolution details. We show that this layered model can be used to capture the two main types of ejection, namely ascending plume columns composed of rapidly rising gas carrying ash which progressively entrains more air, and pyroclastic flows which descend the slopes of the volcano depositing ash, ultimately leading to smaller plumes along their way.We validate the large-scale consistency of our model through comparison with geoscience data, and discuss both real-time visualization and off-line, realistic rendering.

Published
2022
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2. Interactive design of 2D car profiles with aerodynamic feedback

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Nicolas Rosset, Guillaume Cordonnier, Regis Duvigneau, Adrien Bousseau, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), GRAPHics and DEsign with hEterogeneous COntent (GRAPHDECO), Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (CRISAM), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Analysis and Control of Unsteady Models for Engineering Sciences (ACUMES), and This work was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) starting grant D3 (ERC-2016-STG 714221) and research and software donations from Adobe Inc.

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implicit representation, Aerodynamics, Interactive design fluid simulation surrogate model shape optimization neural network implicit representation, neural network, shape optimization, fluid simulation, Car design, surrogate model, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, [INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation, [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], Interactive design, OPAL-Meso
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International audience; The design of car shapes requires a delicate balance between aesthetic and performance. While fluid simulation provides themeans to evaluate the aerodynamic performance of a given shape, its computational cost hinders its usage during the early explorative phases of design, when aesthetic is decided upon. We present an interactive system to assist designers in creating aerodynamic car profiles. Our system relies on a neural surrogate model to predict fluid flow around car shapes, providing fluid visualization and shape optimization feedback to designers as soon as they sketch a car profile. Compared to prior work that focused on time-averaged fluid flows, we describe how to train our model on instantaneous, synchronized observations extracted from multiple pre-computed simulations, such that we can visualize and optimize for dynamic flow features, such as vortices. Furthermore, we architectured our model to support gradient-based shape optimization within a learned latent space of car profiles. In addition to regularizing the optimization process, this latent space and an associated encoder-decoder allows us to input and output car profiles in a bitmap form, without any explicit parameterization of the car boundary. Finally, we designed our model to support pointwise queries of fluid properties around car shapes, allowing us to adapt computational cost to application needs. As an illustration, we only query our model along streamlines for flow visualization, we query it in the vicinity of the car for drag optimization, and we query it behind the car for vortex attenuation.

Published
2023

3. Authoring consistent landscapes with flora and fauna

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Pierre Ecormier-Nocca, Pooran Memari, Philippe Carrez, Marie-Paule Cani, Anne-Marie Moigne, Guillaume Cordonnier, Bedrich Benes, Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École polytechnique [Palaiseau] (LIX), École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), GRAPHics and DEsign with hEterogeneous COntent (GRAPHDECO), Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (CRISAM), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Immersion Tools, Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Computer Science [Purdue], Purdue University [West Lafayette], We would like to thank all the participants of the ANR SCHOPPER project for their contributions, and Gowtham Harihara for the 3D animal models. This research was funded in part by National Science Foundation grant #10001387, Functional Proceduralization of 3D Geometric Models., and ANR-16-CE38-0007,SCHOPPER,Simulation des comportements des Hommes préhistoriques dasn leurs Paléo-Environnements pour la Recherche(2016)

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Resource (biology), business.industry, Environmental resource management, Wildlife, 020207 software engineering, Terrain, 02 engineering and technology, Vegetation, 15. Life on land, Data structure, [INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Ecosystems, Natural Phenomena, Food chain, Geography, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Graph (abstract data type), 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, Ecosystem, business, ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS
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International audience; We present a novel method for authoring landscapes with flora and fauna while considering their mutual interactions. Our algorithm outputs a steadystate ecosystem in the form of density maps for each species, their daily circuits, and a modified terrain with eroded trails from a terrain, climatic conditions, and species with related biological information. We introduce the Resource Access Graph, a new data structure that encodes both interactions between food chain levels and animals traveling between resources over the terrain. A novel competition algorithm operating on this data progressively computes a steady-state solution up the food chain, from plants to carnivores. The user can explore the resulting landscape, where plants and animals are instantiated on the fly, and interactively edit it by over-painting the maps. Our results show that our system enables the authoring of consistent landscapes where the impact of wildlife is visible through animated animals, clearings in the vegetation, and eroded trails. We provide quantitative validation with existing ecosystems and a user-study with expert paleontologist end-users, showing that our system enables them to author and compare different ecosystems illustrating climate changes over the same terrain while enabling relevant visual immersion into consistent landscapes.

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2021
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4. Deep Reconstruction of 3D Smoke Densities from Artist Sketches

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Byungsoo Kim, Xingchang Huang, Laura Wuelfroth, Jingwei Tang, Guillaume Cordonnier, Markus Gross, Barbara Solenthaler, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Max Planck Institute for Informatics [Saarbrücken], GRAPHics and DEsign with hEterogeneous COntent (GRAPHDECO), Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (CRISAM), and Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)

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Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS
Abstract

Creative processes of artists often start with hand-drawn sketches illustrating an object. Pre-visualizing these keyframes is especially challenging when applied to volumetric materials such as smoke. The authored 3D density volumes must capture realistic flow details and turbulent structures, which is highly non-trivial and remains a manual and time-consuming process. We therefore present a method to compute a 3D smoke density field directly from 2D artist sketches, bridging the gap between early-stage prototyping of smoke keyframes and pre-visualization. From the sketch inputs, we compute an initial volume estimate and optimize the density iteratively with an updater CNN. Our differentiable sketcher is embedded into the end-to-end training, which results in robust reconstructions. Our training data set and sketch augmentation strategy are designed such that it enables general applicability. We evaluate the method on synthetic inputs and sketches from artists depicting both realistic smoke volumes and highly non-physical smoke shapes. The high computational performance and robustness of our method at test time allows interactive authoring sessions of volumetric density fields for rapid prototyping of ideas by novice users. ISSN:1467-8659 ISSN:0167-7055

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2022
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5. Interactive Meso‐scale Simulation of Skyscapes

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Maud Lastic, James Gain, Babatunde J. Abiodun, Marie-Paule Cani, Guillaume Cordonnier, and Ulysse Vimont

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Convection, Meteorology, Computer science, business.industry, 020207 software engineering, Terrain, Volume rendering, Cloud computing, 02 engineering and technology, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Rendering (computer graphics), 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, business, Procedural modeling, Convection cell
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Although an important component of natural scenes, the representation of skyscapes is often relatively simplistic. This can be largely attributed to the complexity of the thermodynamics underpinning cloud evolution and wind dynamics, which make interactive simulation challenging. We address this problem by introducing a novel layered model that encompasses both terrain and atmosphere, and supports efficient meteorological simulations. The vertical and horizontal layer resolutions can be tuned independently, while maintaining crucial inter-layer thermodynamics, such as convective circulation and land-air transfers of heat and moisture. In addition, we introduce a cloud-form taxonomy for clustering, classifying and upsampling simulation cells to enable visually plausible, finely-sampled volumetric rendering. As our results demonstrate, this pipeline allows interactive simulation followed by up-sampled rendering of extensive skyscapes with dynamic clouds driven by consistent wind patterns. We validate our method by reproducing characteristic phenomena such as diurnal shore breezes, convective cells that contribute to cumulus cloud formation, and orographic effects from moist air driven upslope.

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2020
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6. Honey, I Shrunk the Domain: Frequency-aware Force Field Reduction for Efficient Fluids Optimization

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Barbara Solenthaler, Vinicius C. Azevedo, Jingwei Tang, Guillaume Cordonnier, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), GRAPHics and DEsign with hEterogeneous COntent (GRAPHDECO), Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (CRISAM), and Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)

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Optimization problem, Computer science, Process (computing), 020207 software engineering, 02 engineering and technology, Parameter space, Solver, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Regularization (mathematics), Force field (chemistry), [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], Matrix decomposition, Reduction (complexity), 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, Algorithm
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Fluid control often uses optimization of control forces that are added to a simulation at each time step, such that the final animation matches a single or multiple target density keyframes provided by an artist. The optimization problem is strongly under-constrained with a high-dimensional parameter space, and finding optimal solutions is challenging, especially for higher resolution simulations. In this paper, we propose two novel ideas that jointly tackle the lack of constraints and high dimensionality of the parameter space. We first consider the fact that optimized forces are allowed to have divergent modes during the optimization process. These divergent modes are not entirely projected out by the pressure solver step, manifesting as unphysical smoke sources that are explored by the optimizer to match a desired target. Thus, we reduce the space of the possible forces to the family of strictly divergence-free velocity fields, by optimizing directly for a vector potential. We synergistically combine this with a smoothness regularization based on a spectral decomposition of control force fields. Our method enforces lower frequencies of the force fields to be optimized first by filtering force frequencies in the Fourier domain. The mask-growing strategy is inspired by Kolmogorov's theory about scales of turbulence. We demonstrate improved results for 2D and 3D fluid control especially in higher-resolution settings, while eliminating the need for manual parameter tuning. We showcase various applications of our method, where the user effectively creates or edits smoke simulations. ISSN:1467-8659 ISSN:0167-7055

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2021
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7. Authoring landscapes by combining ecosystem and terrain erosion simulation

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Guillaume Cordonnier, Marie-Paule Cani, Bedrich Benes, Eric Guérin, Adrien Peytavie, James Gain, Eric Galin, Intuitive Modeling and Animation for Interactive Graphics & Narrative Environments (IMAGINE ), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Modélisation Géométrique, Géométrie Algorithmique, Fractales (GeoMod), Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information (LIRIS), Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Cape Town, Department of Computer Science [Purdue], Purdue University [West Lafayette], ERC, Fonds National pour la Société Numérique, ANR, NSF, ANR-16-CE33-0001,HDWorlds,Modèles procéduraux paramétriques pour la représentation d'univers virtuels complexes(2016), European Project: 291184,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2011-ADG_20110209,EXPRESSIVE(2012), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), and Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)

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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Exploit, Landscapes, Computer science, Interface (Java), Terrain, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS, ACM: I.: Computing Methodologies/I.3: COMPUTER GRAPHICS, Computer graphics, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, medicine, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], Ecosystem, ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Vegetation, business.industry, Environmental resource management, 020207 software engineering, 15. Life on land, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], Stochastic, Variety (cybernetics), Erosion, medicine.symptom, Simulation of Natural Phenomena, Vegetation (pathology), business
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The paper was presented at Siggraph 2017; International audience; We introduce a novel framework for interactive landscape authoring that supports bi-directional feedback between erosion and vegetation simulation. Vegetation and terrain erosion have strong mutual impact and their interplay innuences the overall realism of virtual scenes. Despite their importance, these complex interactions have been neglected in computer graphics. Our framework overcomes this by simulating the eeect of a variety of geomor-phological agents and the mutual interaction between diierent material and vegetation layers, including rock, sand, humus, grass, shrubs, and trees. Users are able to exploit these interactions with an authoring interface that consistently shapes the terrain and populates it with details. Our method, validated through side-by-side comparison with real terrains, can be used not only to generate realistic static landscapes, but also to follow the temporal evolution of a landscape over a few centuries.

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2017
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8. A Review of Digital Terrain Modeling

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Guillaume Cordonnier, James Gain, Eric Galin, Bedrich Benes, Eric Guérin, Marie-Paule Cani, Adrien Peytavie, Modélisation Géométrique, Géométrie Algorithmique, Fractales (GeoMod), Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information (LIRIS), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2), Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École polytechnique [Palaiseau] (LIX), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X), Department of Computer Science [Purdue], Purdue University [West Lafayette], University of Cape Town, ANR HDWorlds, Fonds National pour la Societé Numérique - PAPAYA P110720-2659260, and ANR-16-CE33-0001,HDWorlds,Modèles procéduraux paramétriques pour la représentation d'univers virtuels complexes(2016)

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geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Computer science, Landform, 020207 software engineering, Terrain, 02 engineering and technology, 15. Life on land, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], Variety (cybernetics), Computer graphics, Human–computer interaction, Component (UML), 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, Scale (map), Procedural modeling, Mountain range, ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS
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International audience; Terrains are a crucial component of three-dimensional scenes and are present in many Computer Graphics applications. Terrain modeling methods focus on capturing landforms in all their intricate detail, including eroded valleys arising from the interplay of varied phenomena, dendritic mountain ranges, and complex river networks. Set against this visual complexity is the need for user control over terrain features, without which designers are unable to adequately express their artistic intent. This article provides an overview of current terrain modeling and authoring techniques, organized according to three categories: procedural modeling, physically-based simulation of erosion and land formation processes, and example-based methods driven by scanned terrain data. We compare and contrast these techniques according to several criteria, specifically: the variety of achievable landforms; realism from both a perceptual and geomorphological perspective; issues of scale in terms of terrain extent and sampling precision; the different interaction metaphors and attendant forms of user-control, and computation and memory performance. We conclude with an in-depth discussion of possible research directions and outstanding technical and scientific challenges.

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2019
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9. Sculpting Mountains: Interactive Terrain Modeling Based on Subsurface Geology

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Eric Galin, Marie-Paule Cani, Bedrich Benes, Guillaume Cordonnier, Jean Braun, Intuitive Modeling and Animation for Interactive Graphics & Narrative Environments (IMAGINE ), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Purdue University [West Lafayette], German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam (GFZ), University of Potsdam, Modélisation Géométrique, Géométrie Algorithmique, Fractales (GeoMod), Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information (LIRIS), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2), ERC, NSF grant #1606396, European Project: 291184,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2011-ADG_20110209,EXPRESSIVE(2012), University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam, Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), and Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Computer science, Terrain, 02 engineering and technology, Solid modeling, Subsurface geology, Interactive Design, Mountains, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Compression (geology), geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Terrains, Subduction, 020207 software engineering, Geology, Geophysics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], Plate tectonics, Stratigraphy, Signal Processing, Erosion, 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Scale (map), Software, Mountain range
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International audience; Most mountain ranges are formed by the compression and folding of colliding tectonic plates. Subduction of one plate causes large-scale asymmetry while their layered composition (or stratigraphy) explains the multi-scale folded strata observed on real terrains. We introduce a novel interactive modeling technique to generate visually plausible, large scale terrains that capture these phenomena. Our method draws on both geological knowledge for consistency and on sculpting systems for user interaction. The user is provided hands-on control on the shape and motion of tectonic plates, represented using a new geologically-inspired model for the Earth crust. The model captures their volume preserving and complex folding behaviors under collision, causing mountains to grow. It generates a volumetric uplift map representing the growth rate of subsurface layers. Erosion and uplift movement are jointly simulated to generate the terrain. The stratigraphy allows us to render folded strata on eroded cliffs. We validated the usability of our sculpting interface through a user study, and compare the visual consistency of the earth crust model with geological simulation results and real terrains.

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2018
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10. Interactive Generation of Time-evolving, Snow-Covered Landscapes with Avalanches

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Marie-Paule Cani, Pierre Ecormier, James Gain, Bedrich Benes, Eric Galin, Guillaume Cordonnier, Intuitive Modeling and Animation for Interactive Graphics & Narrative Environments (IMAGINE ), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), École polytechnique (X), Modélisation Géométrique, Géométrie Algorithmique, Fractales (GeoMod), Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information (LIRIS), Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Cape Town, Purdue University [West Lafayette], Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), and Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)

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Height field, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Meteorology, Nordic skiing, sports, 020207 software engineering, Terrain, 02 engineering and technology, Snow, 01 natural sciences, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Stability (probability), [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], Prevailing winds, 13. Climate action, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, sports.sport, Winter season, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

International audience; We introduce a novel method for interactive generation of visually consistent, snow-covered landscapes and provide control of their dynamic evolution over time. Our main contribution is the real-time phenomenological simulation of avalanches and other user-guided events, such as tracks left by Nordic skiing, which can be applied to interactively sculpt the landscape. The terrain is modeled as a height field with additional layers for stable, compacted, unstable, and powdery snow, which behave in combination as a semi-viscous fluid. We incorporate the impact of several phenomena, including sunlight, temperature, prevailing wind direction, and skiing activities. The snow evolution includes snow-melt and snowdrift, which affect stability of the snow mass and the probability of avalanches. A user can shape landscapes and their evolution either with a variety of interactive brushes, or by prescribing events along a winter season time-line. Our optimized GPU-implementation allows interactive updates of snow type and depth across a large (10 × 10 km) terrain, including real-time avalanches, making this suitable for visual assets in computer games. We evaluate our method through perceptual comparison against exiting methods and real snow-depth data.

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2018
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11. EcoBrush: Interactive Control of Visually Consistent Large-Scale Ecosystems

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Guillaume Cordonnier, Marie-Paule Cani, H. Long, James Gain, University of Cape Town, Intuitive Modeling and Animation for Interactive Graphics & Narrative Environments (IMAGINE ), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), ERC, and European Project: 291184,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2011-ADG_20110209,EXPRESSIVE(2012)

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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Computer science, media_common.quotation_subject, Interface (computing), Biome, Fidelity, Terrain, 02 engineering and technology, Ecological succession, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, Consistency (database systems), Computer graphics (images), 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Ecosystem, Natural ecosystem, ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, media_common, Palette (computing), 020207 software engineering, 15. Life on land, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], Plant ecology, Data mining, Scale (map), computer
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This paper was presented at the Eurographics 2017 conference; International audience; One challenge in portraying large-scale natural scenes in virtual environments is specifying the attributes of plants, such as species, size and placement, in a way that respects the features of natural ecosystems, while remaining computationally tractable and allowing user design. To address this, we combine ecosystem simulation with a distribution analysis of the resulting plant attributes to create biome-specific databases, indexed by terrain conditions, such as temperature, rainfall, sunlight and slope. For a specific terrain, interpolated entries are drawn from this database and used to interactively synthesize a full ecosystem, while retaining the fidelity of the original simulations. A painting interface supplies users with semantic brushes for locally adjusting ecosystem age, plant density and variability, as well as optionally picking from a palette of precomputed distributions. Since these brushes are keyed to the underlying terrain properties a balance between user control and real-world consistency is maintained. Our system can be be used to interactively design ecosystems up to 5 × 5 km 2 in extent, or to automatically generate even larger ecosystems in a fraction of the time of a full simulation, while demonstrating known properties from plant ecology such as succession, self-thinning, and underbrush, across a variety of biomes.

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2017
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12. Large Scale Terrain Generation from Tectonic Uplift and Fluvial Erosion

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Adrien Peytavie, Marie-Paule Cani, Jean Braun, Eric Galin, Eric Guérin, Guillaume Cordonnier, Bedrich Benes, Intuitive Modeling and Animation for Interactive Graphics & Narrative Environments (IMAGINE ), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR219-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Department of Computer Science [Purdue], Purdue University [West Lafayette], Modélisation Géométrique, Géométrie Algorithmique, Fractales (GeoMod), Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information (LIRIS), Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Project: 291184,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2011-ADG_20110209,EXPRESSIVE(2012), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), and Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)

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geography, river incision model, geography.geographical_feature_category, Landform, ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION, Fluvial, 020207 software engineering, Terrain, equation, 02 engineering and technology, 15. Life on land, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], Tectonics, Tectonic uplift, parallel, evolution, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Erosion, 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, Digital elevation model, Geomorphology, Stream power, Geology, ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS
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International audience; At large scale, landscapes result from the combination of two major processes: tectonics which generate the main relief through crust uplift, and weather which accounts for erosion. This paper presents the first method in computer graphics that combines uplift and hydraulic erosion to generate visually plausible terrains. Given a user-painted uplift map, we generate a stream graph over the entire domain embedding elevation information and stream flow. Our approach relies on the stream power equation introduced in geology for hydraulic erosion. By combining crust uplift and stream power erosion we generate large realistic terrains at a low computational cost. Finally, we convert this graph into a digital elevation model by blending landform feature kernels whose parameters are derived from the information in the graph. Our method gives high-level control over the large scale dendritic structures of the resulting river networks, watersheds, and mountains ridges.

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2016
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