Fluid Simulation for Video Games, part 3

Third in a series (of 7) became available this week:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/fluid-simulation-for-video-games-part-3/

Fluid Simulation for Video Games, part 2: Fluid Simulation Techniques

The second in a series of articles I wrote for Intel:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/fluid-simulation-for-video-games-part-2/

...and related videos:

Atomic vortex ring
Cannonball through smoke
Dragons, bunnies and magic

Make sure to watch them in HD!

The third article will include the source code for a complete real-time fluid simulation with two-way fluid-body interaction.

Future articles will refine and speed up that simulation.

Fluid Simulation for Video Games, part 1: Introduction to Fluid Dynamics

The first in a series of articles I wrote for Intel:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/fluid-simulation-for-video-games-part-1/

...and some delicious videos:

Atomic vortex ring
Cannonball through smoke
Dragons, bunnies and magic

Make sure to watch them in HD!

Airfoil with lift

Fluid flow past an airfoil.

Any ideas for how to use this in a game?

Maybe a puzzle game where you have to get a paper airplane to strike a target...?

Vortex splitting

Vortices which separated now spawn new particles, maintaining a contiguous thread of them.
Have a look.

See you at SIGgraph.

Fluid simulation update: SIGgraph 2008 poster

SIGgraph 2008 accepted my poster and I've prepared source material for it. Jon Tran and Todd Deery are working on the actual poster and Jon's first few passes at it look great. I'll provide a link to the PDF when it's ready for public consumption.

Meanwhile here are some new movies.

Campfire with smoke

I added another test case for my fluid simulation.

Thanks to Max Acree for the campfire model.