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by dahart 292 days ago
Oh that reminded me, in terms of cheating, you can use curl of a noise field to get completely fake incompressible flow. I used this in a Siggraph course once, and in some shots for a CG movie, but Bridson made it useful and way better by showing how to make it flow around objects. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/docs/bridson-siggraph2007-cu...

The main issue with it is that computing curl of a noise field is a ton more compute than Navier stokes. :P

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Very cool. Thanks for the link. I like to print physical copies of neat finds like this, and will be doing just that