Research News: Let It Flow: Recreating Water Flow for Virtual Reality
The physical laws of everyday water flow were established two centuries ago. However, scientists today struggle to simulate disrupted water flow virtually, e.g., when a hand or object alters its flow.
We have harnessed the power of deep reinforcement learning to replicate the flow of water when disturbed. Replicating this agitated liquid motion, as it is known, allowed them to recreate water flow in real time based on only a small amount of data from real water. The technology opens up the possibility for virtual reality interactions involving water.
Details of their findings were published in the journal ACM Transactions on Graphics on September 17, 2023.
Publication Details:
Title: Real-Time Reconstruction of Fluid Flow under Unknown Disturbance
Authors: Kinfung Chu, Jiawei Huang, Hidemasa Takana, and Yoshifumi Kitamura
Journal: ACM Transactions on Graphics
DOI: 10.1145/3624011