Cloud visualization of weather forecast data plays an important role in
atmosphere analysis and weather prediction. However, due to the low
resolution of weather forecast data and complicated geometry of clouds, it is
a challenging problem to present realistic three dimensional clouds. In this
paper, we propose a new framework to solve this problem. Firstly, data points
are classified into three types of clouds: cumulus, stratus and cirrus. Then,
an interpolation method is used to construct large-scale stratus. For cirrus,
we apply a searching process. Finally, clouds are rendered in interactive way
with various view directions. Experimental results demonstrate that the
proposed method can yield large-scale and realistic clouds.