[dan]

http://www.miralab.unige.ch/

check out the research projects

or have you heard of this?

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114126178/ABSTRACT

[Freddy]

MIRAlab - name rang a bell but I've never seen the site before, nice find.
I see what you mean about the research projects, theres a lot in there that we all have interest in.  Looks like you found graphics research central, nice one 

The write-up for that book reminded me that the new Blender release has improved or new fluids modelling.  There's a nice demo in the YouTube section with one part that shows water being poured into a glass.

Thanks 

[dan]

I found it

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0xfOEhY8CLI

Here's two with hair

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9593w1geWNo

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5WmKvyLuOuI


here's a model splashing down

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-yUaT866-k0

and an article about it in Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothed_particle_hydrodynamics

[Freddy]

I love those water ones, they are so realistic.

I remember when they were making the animated film Ice Age (I think it was that one) that the fur on the animals was by far the hardest part to do.

[dan]

Yeah, I remember the first time I saw the skin on Shrek, it freaked me out.  I'm still looking for that Poser realistic artwork @ deviantART I found from msdewey, some of those guys are awesome artists.

[Freddy]

I added the liquid and hair videos to the new YouTube pages here 

[Carl2]

  I just took a look at the vids in YouTube, I found the liquid to be the best,  the hair I thought was to geometric didn't look real to me.  There's another link in this website somewhere dealing with some work  someone had done with PeoplePutty that I thought was exceptional.
Carl2

[Freddy]

Not sure which link you mean Carl, but I agree the fluids are exceptional.  I thought the hair was pretty good, but still not as lifelike in action as the fluids.  Strange because in my mind I thought the liquids would be the most difficult.

It might just be because more people over a longer time have been modelling fluids.  The modelling of human hair seems to be a more recent development from my memories.