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AI Dreams => General Chat => Topic started by: dan on March 16, 2007, 06:39:29 am

Title: MIRAlab
Post by: dan on March 16, 2007, 06:39:29 am

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

Title: Re: MIRAlab
Post by: Freddy on March 16, 2007, 11:06:14 am

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  :D

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  8)

Title: Re: MIRAlab
Post by: dan on March 16, 2007, 12:05:03 pm

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

Title: Re: MIRAlab
Post by: Freddy on March 16, 2007, 12:32:37 pm

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.

Title: Re: MIRAlab
Post by: dan on March 16, 2007, 12:40:36 pm

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.

Title: Re: MIRAlab
Post by: Freddy on March 16, 2007, 02:33:38 pm

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

Title: Re: MIRAlab
Post by: Carl2 on April 03, 2007, 09:47:19 pm

  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

Title: Re: MIRAlab
Post by: Freddy on April 04, 2007, 12:51:38 pm

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.