clouds

Realistic Synthesised Clouds

IIT Delhi, 1997-2002 

Different kinds of techniques have been used to synthesise realistic images/animations of clouds. It is interesting to observe how they have been affected by changing tecnology, for example, most recent methods use volume rendering techniques which were unthinkable earlier because of high computation/memory requirements. Most methods are general and have also been used for synthesising other fluid phenomena like smoke, flowing liquids etc.

As part of this project, Nishita's Cellular Automata was implemented and it yielded very impressive results.