Realistic physically-based simulations and real-time computer graphics: a narrowing gap (Guest Talk)

Computational Science and Visualization have been the focus of my studies and research for the last several years. The aim of Computational Science is to gain insight into complex systems and natural phenomena by capturing them in computational models and execute these models on the computer.  With Visualization I mean computer visualization in the broadest sense, including branches like Computer Graphics and Image Processing. During my talk I visit several of my projects, ranging from cloth simulation and fluid simulation to Deferred Shading and (non-photorealistic) rendering. One of the themes of my talk is how the programmable graphics processing unit narrowed the gap between realistic physically-based simulations and real-time computer graphics.