Liquid fun (2014)

http://google.github.io/liquidfun/

by atilev • 9 years ago

109 15 9 years ago

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emsy• 9 years ago

This project is 3-4 years old and the last commit was 2 years ago.

shadowmint• 9 years ago

By comparison Box2D is actively maintained: https://github.com/erincatto/Box2D/commits/master

This is the problem when you fork a project. :/

dang• 9 years ago

Ok, we'll split the difference and call it 2014.

aerovistae• 9 years ago

I can't wait til this sort of thing is common in 3D.

slavik812• 9 years ago

It's brutally expensive, unfortunately. Moving from 2D to 3D you go from needing O(n²) particles to O(n³) particles to fill a box. That's an awful increase in complexity, and it really limits the size of what you can do.

With that said, NVIDIA has a boatload of money, top-notch hardware skills and fluid simulation experts like Matthias Müller-Fischer working on the problem. NVIDIA Flex[1] is amazing to behold.

[1] https://youtu.be/pfonMfP__Ks

pbhjpbhj• 9 years ago

As a slight aside, is NVIDIA's motivation profit from the gaming industry or does this find industrial application outside of the obvious visual presentations?

jacobsimon• 9 years ago

Even better in 3D: http://david.li/fluid/

santaclaus• 9 years ago

Ohhh old school, FLIP was fun! David should upgrade to APIC.

kevinwang• 9 years ago

The performance of this on my laptop invariably blows my mind

bsenftner• 9 years ago

I like this version more (also david.li): http://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/soup/ (2D, but funnier)

abainbridge• 9 years ago

Nice. Is there anything like this for simulating gas? I want to make a 2D simulation of an internal combustion engine.

ino• 9 years ago

perhaps not quite what you want, but you can do this with box2d: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kZRpouZ3OQ

iKlsR• 9 years ago

For anyone who wants to get their feet wet just a little (pun not intended). https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/simulation. Also recommend checking out the entire series.

Liquid fun (2014)

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