1. Gokul Varadhan Naga Govindaraju
Ocean Modeling
Gokul Varadhan
Naga Govindaraju

2. Proposal for the project
Model ocean waves
Adopt Fournier-Reeves model [Fournier & Reeves]
Particle systems
Realistic looking waves
Realistic motion of the waves
Range of waves and other effects such as wind, shallow bottom etc
Model interaction of moving rigid objects with the ocean
Say a ship moving in the sea
How do ocean and object affect each other’s motion ?
Model buoyancy

3. Ocean-object interaction
Partitioned Dynamics [Baraff & Witkin]
Combining particle systems with rigid bodies
Gamasutra article [Jensen & Golias]
This paper is in the context of combining cloth simulation with rigid bodies.

4. References
[Fournier & Reeves ] Fournier, A., Reeves, W.T., A Simple Model of Ocean Waves, ACM Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH '86 Proceedings) , pp , 1986.
[Baraff & Witkin ] D. Baraff and A. Witkin, Partitioned Dynamics, Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-97-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997.
[Jensen & Golias] Lasse Staff Jensen and Robert Golias. "Deep-Water Animation and Rendering".