Towards virtually cooking Chinese food

Chinese food is delicious but cooking Chinese food is a very complex process which involves in combing ingredients at the right time and temperature. In this paper, we present a multimedia technology for virtually cooking Chinese food. We focus on a popular Chinese food, shredded potato. We propose to use the theory from mechanics of materials to model shredded potato in its cooking process. The shredded potato is initially simplified with changed deformable beams by adjusting model parameters during the cooking process when shredded potato gets dasiasoftpsila deformations. We use superposition principle to cope with the multi-load problem when potato shreds pile up and contact with each other. We describe the modeling techniques and implementation issues in detail. We show the result from the proposed modeling technique by comparing it with the real image.