Padilla, Marcel and Gross, Oliver and Knöppel, Felix and Chern, Albert and Pinkall, Ulrich and Schröder, Peter (2022) Filament based plasma. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 41 (4). Art. No. 153. ISSN 0730-0301. doi:10.1145/3528223.3530102. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20220726-998094000
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Abstract
Simulation of stellar atmospheres, such as that of our own sun, is a common task in CGI for scientific visualization, movies and games. A fibrous volumetric texture is a visually dominant feature of the solar corona---the plasma that extends from the solar surface into space. These coronal fibers can be modeled as magnetic filaments whose shape is governed by the magnetohydrostatic equation. The magnetic filaments provide a Lagrangian curve representation and their initial configuration can be prescribed by an artist or generated from magnetic flux given as a scalar texture on the sun's surface. Subsequently, the shape of the filaments is determined based on a variational formulation. The output is a visual rendering of the whole sun. We demonstrate the fidelity of our method by comparing the resulting renderings with actual images of our sun's corona.
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| Subject Keywords: | Magnetohydrostatics, Conformal, Geodesics, Lagrangian modeling, Filament based method | ||||||||
| Issue or Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Classification Code: | CCS Concepts: Applied computing → Astronomy; Physics; Mathematics of computing → Partial diferential equations; Computing methodologies → Scientiic visualization | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1145/3528223.3530102 | ||||||||
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20220726-998094000 | ||||||||
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| Official Citation: | Marcel Padilla, Oliver Gross, Felix Knöppel, Albert Chern, Ulrich Pinkall, and Peter Schröder. 2022. Filament Based Plasma. ACM Trans. Graph. 41, 4, Article 153 (July 2022), 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3528223.3530102 | ||||||||
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| Deposited By: | George Porter | ||||||||
| Deposited On: | 27 Jul 2022 20:31 | ||||||||
| Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2022 20:31 |
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