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Following rapidly changing target objects is a challenging problem in
fluid control, especially when the natural
fluid motion should be preserved. The fluid should be responsive to the
changing configuration of the target and,
at the same time, its motion should not be overconstrained. In this
paper, we introduce an efficient and effective
solution by applying two different external force fields. The first one
is a feedback force field which compensates
for discrepancies in both shape and velocity. Its shape component is
designed to be divergence free so that it can
survive the velocity projection step. The second one is the gradient
field of a potential function defined by the
shape and skeletion of the target object. Our experiments indicate a
mixture of these two force fields can achieve
desirable and pleasing effects.
Lin Shi and Yizhou Yu,
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2005.

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