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News from Exotic matter about their state-of-the-art dynamics software Naiad.

The above simulation (click on it to play), was shown at NUGGET and we are now releasing it to the general public as an example of what a small group of talented artists can achieve using Naiad.

• The simulation was run on a single quad-core Intel(R) computer running the latest Naiad 0.3 release.
• FLIP particle count was around 18 million, plus another 20 million “splash/spray/foam” particles on top of that.
• The viking longboat is a Naiad rigid-body that fully interacts with the ocean (e.g. strong two-way coupling for the initiated).  The longboat’s motion comes entirely from the Naiad physics.
• Naiad solved this simulation (including the coupled rigid-body) in just under 3 minutes per frame. No GPU acceleration, no distributed simulation.
• There are no texture maps or displacement maps in this render; what you see is just the mesh surfaced using Naiad’s own particle surfacer, rendered with just a water shader.  The white spray/splash/foam particles were rendered simply as points.

Naiad – Home.

Simulated, lit and rendered (using RenderMan) by the Important Looking Pirates, Stockholm, Sweden.

Filed under: 3D, VFX, Important Looking Pirates, Naiad