Abstract
In this paper, we propose a method for smoke animation based on an input image, such as photograph. Using the input image, we calculate the required values, such as position, shape or density of the smoke, to characterize the smoke of the input image. We calculate and automatically adjust some parameters required to create the gaseous fluid animation resembling the input image, because we cannot obtain these parameters directly from the input. By using our method, users can obtain more similar animation to the intended result and acquire it more intuitively than the result in case of manually tuning all of the simulation parameters.
