Visualization of smoke using particle systems

Sammanfattning: Visualization is used everywhere in today’s society, from big screen pictures and video games to commercials and artistic images. The desire to be able to create realistic looking and behaving phenomena has long existed and today’s technology allows us to come close to realistic results. Particle systems is a technique that has long been used to create many visualisations for all of these purposes. In this paper we will describe this simple method of creating realistic visualizations. We will look at the results of the simplest of particle systems and compare them to those of the more advanced.