Burning Objects that Melt

Dhanyu Amarasinghe and Ian Parberry, "Real-time Rendering of Melting Objects in Video Games", Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer Games, pp. 154-158, Louisville, KY, 2013.

Abstract

We present a method for simulating the melting and flowing of material in burning objects fast enough to be of use in video games where most of the graphical and computational resources are needed elsewhere. The standard practice of using particle engines or fluid dynamics for melting are far too costly for use in this environment. We demonstrate that our method, which is based on systematic polygonal expanding and folding, uses only a fraction of the computational power available by implementing the computation on a very modest GPU using CUDA.

• CGAMES 2013 conference proceedings version.
• A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Technical Report LARC-2013-01, Laboratory for Recreational Computing, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of North Texas, 2013.
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• See also Amarasinghe and Parberry, "Towards Fast, Believable Real-time Rendering of Burning Objects in Video Games", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, pp. 256-258, Bordeaux, France, 2011, " Fast, Believable Real-time Rendering of Burning Low-Polygon Objects in Video Games ", Proceedings of the 6th International North American Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation (GAMEON-NA), pp. 21-26, EUROSIS, Troy, NY, 2011, and "Real-time Rendering of Burning Solid Objects in Video Games" Technical Report LARC-2012-01, Laboratory for Recreational Computing, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of North Texas, 2012.