“Magic Fluid Control” by ETH Zürich
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2007 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2007:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 24
Title:
- Magic Fluid Control
Description:
The movie consists of three clips that showcase the possibilities of controlled-fluid simulations. Two clips involve a magician who creates 3D figures made of fluid. The third one shows a liquid flowing up several stairs to form a human figure. The animations were created in the context of the authors’ work on controlled-fluid simulations.
The water was simulated using the lattice Boltzman method and is controlled using particles that define local force fields. These particles are generated automatically, either from a physical sim-ulation or a sequence of target shapes. At the same time, the natural fluid motion is preserved as much as possible. The video was animated and rendered with the open-source 3D application Blender, which in its current version contains the authors’ fluid solver.
Software:
Custom-controlled LBM fluid solver, Blender for animation and ray tracing, Gimp for overlays
Additional Contributors:
Nils Thuerey – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Mark Pauly – ETH Zürich
Richard Keiser – ETH Zürich
Ulrich Ruede – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
