Rotating clouds

OpenGL OpenGL: Advanced Coding

mkardesci May 29, 2003, 11:03pm 1

Hi, I am trying to write a space simulation, and now I have to make rotating volumed clouds. Any suggestion

morbac May 30, 2003, 11:28am 2

Are there clouds in space !??

KlausE May 30, 2003, 12:09pm 3

Volume rendering ? http://dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu/~ebertd/nvidia/PURPL_results.html http://www.cs.utah.edu/~jmk/simian/index.htm

Imposters ? http://www.cs.unc.edu/~harrism/clouds/index.html

imported_john May 30, 2003, 4:07pm 4

Are there clouds in space !??

yep. I guess he means nebulae, tho’. Jupiter is effectively a big cloud

mkardesci May 30, 2003, 5:17pm 5

I mean gas clouds

KlausE May 30, 2003, 5:21pm 6

You can probably apply the same physical model as in the links i posted: emission, absorption, scattering, …

Klaus