Computer Graphics & Scientific Computing Research and Potential Master’s Thesis Projects at Department of Computer Science University of Aarhus
What is Computer Graphics? Modeling Geometry Appearance Animation Keyframes Motion Capture Simulation/Synthesis Rendering Offline Realtime
What is Scientific Computing? Developing and studying mathematical models Developing numerical methods/analysis Efficient data structures and algorithms for computation (Large-scale) Computations
What do We do? Medical image computing and surgical simulation Numerical Analysis (numerical linear algebra, PDEs and ODEs) Physically based simulation of surfaces and fluids Visual Art
Deformable Surfaces - The Level Set Method The level set method couples Implicit Geometry (modeling) Partial Differential Equations (animation) Problems: Memory usage of fast methods is O(N3) Methods do not exploit cache Computational domain fixed Our Solution (Journal of Sci. Comp. 2005, ACM Trans. on Graphics 2006 and 2007): Efficient data structures and algorithms
High Resolution Fluid Simulations Using our data structures and algorithms
Project 1: Fluid Simulation Control Animators/artists/directors want control over the fluid: Fluid should act like a digital character Fluid should have complex behaviour at all scales Fluid should resemble real fluid or have a specific style Control should be easy and fast for the artist to do…
Project 1: Fluid Simulation Control Visual intelligence and skills of the computer graphics artist/animator Challenge: Efficient Coupling
Project 1+… For more master’s thesis projects in fluid simulation Contact Michael Bang Nielsen (bang@daimi.au.dk)
We are looking for dedicated master’s and PhD students! Interested? We are looking for dedicated master’s and PhD students! What we can offer: Fun! and challenging projects Unsolved problems (we aim for a publication) International collaboration What we expect: You are dedicated to your project You do your best You work actively with the rest of the group
Thanks for your attention! Find out more about our research and who to contact: http://www.daimi.au.dk/research/areas/computer-graphics-and-scientific-computing/