1. Computer Graphics & Scientific Computing
Research and Potential Master’s Thesis Projects at
Department of Computer Science
University of Aarhus

2. What is Computer Graphics?
Modeling
Geometry
Appearance
Animation
Keyframes
Motion Capture
Simulation/Synthesis
Rendering
Offline
Realtime

3. What is Scientific Computing?
Developing and studying mathematical models
Developing numerical methods/analysis
Efficient data structures and algorithms for computation
(Large-scale) Computations

4. What do We do? Medical image computing and surgical simulation
Numerical Analysis (numerical linear algebra, PDEs and ODEs)
Physically based simulation of surfaces and fluids
Visual Art

5. Deformable Surfaces - The Level Set Method
The level set method couples
Implicit Geometry (modeling)
Partial Differential Equations (animation)
Problems:
Memory usage of fast methods is O(N3)
Methods do not exploit cache
Computational domain fixed
Our Solution (Journal of Sci. Comp. 2005, ACM Trans. on Graphics 2006 and 2007):
Efficient data structures and algorithms

6. High Resolution Fluid Simulations Using our data structures and algorithms

7. Project 1: Fluid Simulation Control
Animators/artists/directors want control over the fluid:
Fluid should act like a digital character
Fluid should have complex behaviour at all scales
Fluid should resemble real fluid or have a specific style
Control should be easy and fast for the artist to do…

8. Project 1: Fluid Simulation Control
Visual intelligence and skills
of the computer graphics artist/animator
Challenge:
Efficient Coupling

9. Project 1+… For more master’s thesis projects in fluid simulation
Contact
Michael Bang Nielsen

10. We are looking for dedicated master’s and PhD students!
Interested?
We are looking for dedicated master’s and PhD students!
What we can offer:
Fun! and challenging projects
Unsolved problems (we aim for a publication)
International collaboration
What we expect:
You are dedicated to your project
You do your best
You work actively with the rest of the group

11. Thanks for your attention!
Find out more about our research and who to contact: