Water Droplet

Simulation on Glass
Surfaces

CS 565 Term Project

Dogan Kaya Berktas

What is the project is
about?

•  Realistic animation of water droplets on glass surfaces

•  Flow of droplets

•  Rendering

 Facts about Droplet
Flow

•  Droplet start to flow only when it exceed certain
threshold

•  Surface and other droplet change the flow route

•  Droplets left some wet path behind

 Major Considerations

•  Gravity

•  Interfacial & Surface tension

•  Air resistance

•  Accurate rendering

 How to Simulate

•  Divide the surface to nxn

•  Each cell has its own

property, impurity

 Flow Simulation

•  Movement of the droplet and the critical mass

•  Direction of the movement

•  Speed of the movement

•  The mass left behind

•  Falling behind the critical mass & the stop

Problems to be Solved

•  Finding the critical mass of the each cell

•  Determining the flow direction according to adjacent
cells

•  tendency

•  critical mass

•  inclination

Problems to be Solved

•  Droplet speed

•  Wet or Dry surface acceleration

•  Collision & Merging

•  Shape of droplet

 Rendering

•  Using background texture for pixel colors

•  Trace each ray

•  Reflected

•  Refracted

•  Defocus and blur effects for image quality

 References

•  P.of Fournier, A. Habibi and P. Poulin, ‘Simulating the flow
liquid droplets’, Proceedings of Graphics Interface 98,
1998, pp. 133–142.

•  K. Kaneda, T. Kagawa and H. Yamashita, ‘Animation of

water droplets on a glass plate’, Proceedings of
Computer Animation ’93, 1993, pp. 177–189.

•  ‘Animation
K. Kaneda, Y. Zuyama, H. Yamashita and T. Nishita,
of water droplet flow on curved surfaces’,
Proceedings of Pacific Graphics ’96, 1996, pp. 50–65.

•  M. Janosi and V. K. Horvath, ‘Dynamics of water droplets

on a window pane’, Physical Review, 40(9), 5232–5237
(1989).