Computer Graphics

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Computer Graphics Scientific Computing

• Research at Department of Computer Science
• Aarhus University

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What is Computer Graphics?

• Modeling
• Geometry
• Appearance
• Animation
• Keyframes
• Motion Capture
• Simulation/Synthesis
• Rendering
• Offline
• Realtime

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What is Scientific Computing?

• Developing and studying mathematical models
• Developing numerical methods/analysis
• Efficient data structures and algorithms for
  computation
• (Large-scale) Computations

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Medical Image Computing
People Thomas Sangild Sørensen Karsten Østergaard
Noe
Non-linear registration for radiotherapy
treatment planning
Real-time reconstruction of Non-Cartesian
parallel magnetic resonance imaging
Open heart surgery simulation
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Quantitative Tissue Analysis
People Allan Rasmusson
Virtual probes for estimating local parameters
Numerical Analysis
People Ole Østerby
HYMOS Hybrid Functionals for Metal Oxide Surfaces
Numerical linear algebra, PDEs and ODEs
Visual Art
People Peter Møller-Nielsen and Jette Gejl
Kristensen
Work of art Strandgade 30
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Physically Based Simulation of Surfaces and Fluids
People Ken Museth, Brian Bunch Christensen,
Michael Bang Nielsen
Collaborators Dreamworks Animation (USA),
Digital Domain (USA), Linköping University
(Sweden),Bonn University (Germany),Utah
University (USA)
Liquid Simulation and Level Set Data Structures
Surface Processing and Smoothing of Large
Implicit Surfaces
Smoke Simulation and Control
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Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics

• Fluid too complex to be animated entirely by
  hand, must be simulated
• Fluid should resemble real fluid or have a
  specific style
• Fluid should act like a character
• Control and convincing visual detail more
  important than numerical accuracy

From Inkheart. Image by Double Negative
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Guiding Fluid Simulation Control
Our Contribution Guided Fine Simulation
Coarse Simulation
Fine Simulation
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Interested?

• We are looking for dedicated masters and PhD
  students!
• What we can offer
• Fun! and challenging projects
• Unsolved problems (we aim for a publication)
• International collaboration
• What we expect
• You are dedicated to your project
• You do your best
• You work actively with the rest of the group

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Thanks for your attention!
Thomas
Ole
Karsten
Allan
Michael
Peter
Lau
Ken
Brian

• Find out more about our research and who to
  contact

http//cs.au.dk/research/areas/computer-graphics-a
nd-scientific-computing/