marker-and-cell method

The marker-and-cell method is commonly used in computer graphics to discretize functions for fluid and other simulations.{{cite journal|last=Harlow|first=F. H.|author2=J. E. Welch|title=Numerical calculation of time-dependent viscous incompressible flow of fluid with a free surface|journal=Physics of Fluids|year=1965|volume=8|issue=12|pages=2182–2189|doi=10.1063/1.1761178|bibcode=1965PhFl....8.2182H }} It was developed by Francis Harlow and his collaborators at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.{{cite book|last=Erik van der Giessen, Hassan Aref|author2-link=Hassan Aref|name-list-style=amp|title=Advances in Applied Mechanics|year=2003|publisher=Academic Press|pages=86|isbn=9780120020393|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJO52rbX7ygC&dq=MaC+method+harlow&pg=PA86}}