Visual Simulation of Wave Propagation on Arbitrary Surface Using Displacement Mapping

–Distortion correction by cube maps–

Abstract

Deformation plays an essential role in expressing a large variety of materials in the reality. Due to the progress of computer graphics, deformation simulation also needs to be more accurate. In this study, we propose a new method of deformation simulation on an arbitrary closed surface using displacement mapping. We divert cube maps to displacement mapping so as to correct distortion between the texture space and the physical space. In this article, we simulate wave propagation as an example of the deformation.