Figure 1: Illustrations created using our system to describe the surgical repair procedure of tricuspid atresia (TA). The user interactively edits the illustration and the system continuously presents the corresponding blood flow computed by simplified fluid simulation. This paper presents a lightweight sketching system that enables interactive illustration of complex fluid systems. Users can sketch on a 2.5-dimensional (2.5D) canvas to design the shapes and connections of a fluid circuit. These input sketches are automatically analyzed and abstracted into a hydraulic graph, and a new hybrid fluid model is used in the background to enhance the illustrations. The system provides rich simple operations for users to edit the fluid system incrementally, and the new internal flow patterns can be simulated in real time. Our system is used to illustrate various fluid systems in medicine, biology, and engineering. We asked professional medical doctors to try our system and obtained positive feedback from them.
REF presented a system that combines sketches with a fluid model to produce rich, interactive illustrations.
Sketch-based Dynamic Illustration of Fluid Systems
SA '11
Computer Science