Development of a support tool for creating water flow animation from a single image

Abstract

In this paper, a support tool for generating water flow animation from a single water flow image without requiring special skill of use is proposed. A method for creating a water flow animation by compositing water flow videos had been proposed by Okabe et al. However, this method requires some degree of knowledge of image processing for specifying the direction of water flow and searching similar images. If this problem is solved, it is expected that the range of user of this method may expand. As a solution to this problem, an interactive support tool for generating a water flow video based on the Okabe's method is proposed and the usefulness of it was confirmed with some examples.