Technophile or technophobe, everyone should have a look at this video clip!
It shows computer generated shapes squidging up and splaying out, and generally behaving like real world ‘wet’ things.
The animation is great fun to watch, but what really blew my mind was that none of it is real. Every last bend, twist and splodge is created by a computer graphics program simulating the real world… and doing it well.
And because more is better than less, here are some more fluid simulations:
Final Fantasy XIV has some amazing looking ‘water’ but still nothing that looks and acts like real water.
The following 3 pics were taken at a game location called ‘Mist’ and show the waves coming in and going out. [note to self – really must download a video capture app again].
Look at the waves….
The waves don’t ‘interact’ with objects terribly well, but one day they will. One day, the simulated world will look as real as the real one. And from there, Innerscape is just a hop, skip and a jump away.
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September 23rd, 2015 at 9:03 am
It’s amazing, but I’ll not be relinquishing my attachment to real reality 🙂
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September 23rd, 2015 at 12:12 am
if it was yellow and smelled like cheese i’d be sitting on the end of that conveyor belt 😐
What’s really amazing is that the math for stuff like that were created in 70s-80s i think, at least when looking at old white papers that’s what i gather, but the realtime processing power wasn’t there.
Want to know the holly grail for most realtime graphics engines? Transparency effects that render correctly and in order with shadows and effects. Most engines go “hey! glass! and something blurry behind it! lets mush them and flicker them in and out of focus :P.”
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September 23rd, 2015 at 8:49 am
Oh! Speaking of glass. I’m not sure if included the Blender tutorial with the video clips but it is of a glass container [looks just like real glass] with water in it and an ice cube drops in to make a ‘splash’. Beautiful.
Apparently Blender is now giving Maya a run for its money, at least in some circles.
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September 22nd, 2015 at 4:13 pm
I have to agree with Carrie – you do find awesome stuff! My favourite part was the bendy bit at the beginning, like a tube of toothpaste.
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September 22nd, 2015 at 10:13 pm
lmao – yes! They should have made it striped like that kid’s one. 🙂
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September 26th, 2015 at 8:43 pm
😊
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September 22nd, 2015 at 11:44 am
Totally cool! Love the waves rising and falling… hypnotic.
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September 22nd, 2015 at 10:12 pm
🙂
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September 22nd, 2015 at 10:47 am
Very cool. You always find great stuff. 🙂
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September 22nd, 2015 at 11:31 am
lol Thanks!
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