Additional Literature

Here is some recent work related to our task of water representation and rendering.

Surface Creation/Extraction

Most recent method proposed for surface extraction from a particle system.
Real-time particle isosurface extraction

This paper creates a surface from a particle system. It mentions several alternative methods, including splatting, marching cubes, and ray-casting.
Realistic and Interactive Simulation of Rivers
Presentation Slides

Rendering and Textures

Animating water realistically, then applying a non-photorealistic appearance.
A Method for Cartoon-Style Rendering of Liquid Animations

Updating texture information according to fluid flow/advection.
Texturing Fluids

In contrast, this paper generates a new texture for each frame:
A Texture Synthesis Method for Liquid Animations

SPH

Performance analysis of stable fluids, including new speedup methods
Hardware-aware analysis and optimization of stable fluids


Judging from this literature search, some possible research avenues that could be explored as part of this project include animating water in a non-photorealistic style and possibly surface creation.