title: Fast simulation of Laplacian growth.
abstract: Laplacian instability is the physical mechanism driving pattern formation in many disparate natural phenomena. Current algorithms for simulating this instability are slow and memory intensive. A new algorithm, based on the dielectric breakdown model from physics, is more than three orders of magnitude faster than previous methods and decreases memory use by two orders of magnitude.
authors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. kim@cs.unc.edu
authors: Theodore
authors: T
authors: Kim
authors: Jason
authors: J
authors: Sewall
authors: Avneesh
authors: A
authors: Sud
authors: Ming C
authors: MC
authors: Lin
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009862:Online Systems; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted