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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2009
Ji Gu, Shanghai, CN;
Zhao Xia Jin, Shanghai, CN;
Tom Plocher, Hugo, MN (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and system for modeling a three-dimensional smoke propagation animation system. The animation system can be configured to include a particle system manager, a compartment manager, a state variable manager, a three-dimensional space outline rendering module, and a three-dimensional smoke animation rendering module. The particle system manager creates and updates an existing particle system based on an input script and data from the state variable manager. The state variable manager loads smoke propagation data and provides smoke information to the particle system manager to create and update the particle system and space outline. The compartment manager creates a three-dimensional outline with respect to each compartment space from a compartment data and updates the status of the existing three-dimensional outlines based on information from the state variable manager. A final three-dimensional smoke propagation animation can then be rendered by the three-dimensional smoke animation rendering module.