Render smoke and fog without being a computation hog

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The kind of foggy image that the new graphics method can render more quickly and efficiently than other methods. Credit: UC San Diego
The kind of foggy image that the new graphics method can render more quickly and efficiently than other methods. Credit: UC San Diego

Computer scientists from UC San Diego have developed a way to generate images like smoke-filled bars, foggy alleys and smog-choked cityscapes without the computational drag and slow speed of previous computer graphics methods.


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