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From: jch@Stardent.COM (Jan Hardenbergh @stardent)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: info on paintbrush systems and physics particle systems
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Date: 8 Oct 90 17:41:07 GMT
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From: mark@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Jansen)
Date: 5 Oct 90 14:56:53 GMT

> second, I know that physicists do computer simulations of galaxies, globular
> clusters, planetoid collisions and such.  These things I might call
> particle system dynamics.  What are the basic methods of doing these types
> of computations efficiently.  Is there a basic textbook or basic references 
> but I am sure the field has really baroqued out with thousands of obscure
> numerical methods.  I don't want to spend my life chasing them all down.
> Just the facts.

You should read the paper in the SIGGRAPH 90 proceedings by Jim Arvo and
David Kirk, "Particle Transport and Image Synthesis". It will tell you
much of what you want to know and has a good bibliography.

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