%0 Conference Proceedings
%4 sid.inpe.br/sibgrapi/2022/09.26.14.04
%2 sid.inpe.br/sibgrapi/2022/09.26.14.04.41
%@doi 10.1109/SIBGRAPI55357.2022.9991770
%T Counting Particles: a simple and fast surface reconstruction method for particle-based fluids
%D 2022
%A Quispe, Filomen Incahuanaco,
%A Paiva, Afonso,
%@affiliation ICMC-USP
%@affiliation ICMC-USP
%B Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, 35 (SIBGRAPI)
%C Natal, RN
%8 24-27 Oct. 2022
%S Proceedings
%K discrete indicator function, surface reconstruction, particle-based fluids, SPH.
%X We present a novel and efficient surface reconstruction for particle-based fluid methods. Although particle-based methods are practical for computing level-sets that represent liquid interfaces, these methods are computationally expensive when the number of particles increases considerably due to the intense usage of particle approximations. This paper introduces a simple level-set approximation using a discrete indicator function (DIF) defined by counting particles inside grid cells. Our method is fast, easy to code, and can be adapted straightforwardly in particle-based solvers, even implemented in GPU. Moreover, we show the effectiveness of our approach through a set of experiments against prior surface reconstruction methods.
%@language en
%3 paper.pdf