Filament based plasma

Simulation of stellar atmospheres, such as that our own sun, is a common task in CGI for scientific visualization, movies and games. A fibrous volumetric texture visually dominant feature the solar corona---the plasma extends from surface into space. These coronal fibers can be modeled magnetic filaments whose shape governed by magnetohydrostatic equation. The provide Lagrangian curve representation their initial configuration prescribed an artist or generated flux given scalar on sun's surface. Subsequently, determined based variational formulation. output visual rendering whole sun. We demonstrate fidelity method comparing resulting renderings with actual images corona.