IDEAS NCBR at SIGGRAPH 2024

Animated Ink Bleeding with Computational Fluid Dynamics

Grzegorz Gruszczyński (IDEAS NCBR), Mateusz Tokarz (Platige Image), Przemysław Musialski (IDEAS NCBR, NJIT)

Science and business can go hand in hand, and we’re proud to present the first result of the scientific cooperation between IDEAS NCBR and Platige Image, which started last year.

Traditional watercolor art beautifully captures the fluid interplay between ink and water on paper, creating visually complex scenes. Digital artists, inspired by these traditional methods, have attempted to replicate this effect in visual media. However, due to the deficiency of dedicated software tools, these digital versions may be cumbersome. The most challenging is restoring a liquid’s movement given a prescribed pattern. There are currently no tools available on the market that would enable artists to fully control such a process and provide high-quality results simultaneously.

This research is crucial for the animation industry because it eliminates the need for multiple experiments to achieve the desired ink-bleeding effect, which is often used in animations, videos, or games. Digitalization of this effect saves a lot of time – it takes only a few minutes to create a simulation. Additionally, the solution is computationally efficient, making it user-friendly and accessible.

Also, Aleksander Płocharski presented another poster:

Neuro-Symbolic Transformation od Architectural Facades into Their Procedural Representations

Aleksander Płocharski (PW, IDEAS NCBR), Jan Świdziński (IDEAS NCBR), Joanna Porter-Sobieraj (PW, IDEAS NCBR), Przemysław Musialski (IDEAS NCBR, NJIT)

Thanks to this poster and volunteering at the conference, Aleksander was awarded 2nd place at ACM Student Research Competition. Great job! Read an interview with the winners here.