Welcome, everyone!
As you can see in the About page, my name is Sicilia Ferreira Judice and I am here to talk about my researches. I work with computing since 1999, when I started a technical course. In 2006 I graduated in Computer Science and since then I have been researching in the Computer Graphics area. In the thesis of the graduate course I worked with particle systems to simulate a rain in a computer game of race car. This game was implemented by a group of friends of mine, also for the graduate course. We used C/C++ programming language and the Ogre 3D engine.
Particle system to simulate the rain.
Nowadays I am finishing a master course in Computational Modeling in the National Laboratory of Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil. I am researching about the use of Cellular Automata and Lattice based methods for the animation of fluids. Specifically I work with the FHP, a Lattice-Gas Cellular Automata, and the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM), for simulate a rainfall. These researches produced 3 publications in 2008, one of them selected between the 10 best papers in computing, and a submission for the ACM CIE (Computers in Entertainment) Journal. Basically, the work consists of a combination of techniques. We have a terrain simulated by a Digital Terrain Model, a lattice based method to simulate a fluid flow over this terrain and the FHP or the LBM to simulate the rainfall.
Example using the FHP method to simulate the rainfall.
Example using the LBM to simulate the rainfall.
We can observe the similarity between the flows in the sequence below, which indicates that the FHP-based model can reproduce physically effects despite of its simplicity from the theoretical viewpoint.
For the next months I am finishing to write the master thesis. So, gradually, I will explain all the methods that I have been using. This is the main goal of this blog, maintain an update of my researches as to create a discuss to which interest! I hope you enjoy!
