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Synthesizing and editing dynamic flames with color temperature

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Generating computer animated flames is a difficult and computationally expensive problem. Dynamic textures provide an effective means for extrapolating and synthesizing dynamic flames, but aggravates color distortion due to the high correlation of RGB components. A novel method for dynamic flame texture synthesis using color temperature is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the color-temperature mapping is calculated by using the Planck’s law and two-color pyrometric technique to avoid color distortion. Secondly, a novel dynamic texture model is presented to transform the RGB space into temperature space. Finally, the dynamic flames editing is presented to support physical temperature adjustment. Experimental results illustrate that our approach is effective to synthesize visually plausible dynamic flames without color distortions and to edit dynamic flames with intuitive physical interpretation.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2012AA011803), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61472020), and the Specialized Research Foundation of China (20121102130004). We sincerely thank Professor Voicu Popescu of Purdue University for his lectures about high-quality graphics paper writing.

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    Zhaohui Wu, Zhong Zhou, Fei Dou & Wei Wu

  2. Computer Graphics and Image Understanding Laboratory, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA

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Wu, Z., Zhou, Z., Dou, F. et al. Synthesizing and editing dynamic flames with color temperature. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 5379–5392 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-014-0672-0

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