Particle Motion Simulation - A Parallel Distributed Workstation Application for Real-Time

: Particle motion simulation subdivides graphical objects into a set of small particles behaving according to specific rules. Real-time particle motion simulation makes it possible to simulate natural phenomena like smoke or Brownian motion for demonstration and verification purposes. The paper describes how the enormous computational requirements can be solved using distributed parallel computation on a set of workstations. 1. Particle Motion Simulation Particle motion simulation is a concept applied in the areas of scientific visualization and computer graphics. It is an approach to model and render objects that cannot be easily described in terms of surfaces, volume primitives and motion paths. That is because the frontier between the objects and the environment is varying over time or can only be defined statistically, like fire, fog or smoke [1]. Particle motion simulation can also be applied to models in various sciences like the Brownian motion, economics and social behaviour. P..