3D smoke: taking Pixel Bender to the next dimension

One final thing I wanted to achieve with smoke effects is to port the 2D simulation to 3D. Early results in pure AS3 were pretty disappointing, so again I turned to Pixel Bender and its speedy goodness. Still, the main obstacle was of course performance. The first step was to optimize the original 2D version…

Experimenting with Alchemy: of Smoke, Milk, and Ink

Thanks to Ralph Hauwert’s blogpost pushing a baffling >300.000 particles using Alchemy, I finally got the much needed motivation to try out Alchemy myself. To be able to get started asap, I decided to return to something I’ve done before: fluid and smoke dynamics, but with a different algorithm (see Mike West’s article on Gamedev).…

Cloth simulation modifier in AS3Dmod

  I was recently invited to create a cloth modifier for AS3Dmod by Bartek Drozdz, similar to the 2D version I did earlier. In the unlikely case you haven’t heard about it before, AS3Dmod is a cool modifier library compatible with the most popular 3D Acionscript engines (Papervision3D, Away3D, Sandy and Alternativa3D). To put it…

Verlet + Newton + FP10 = Cloth Simulation

A project I’m currently involved in inspired me to completely rewrite my old Curtain class into something more stable and versatile. Using a character physics method based on Verlet integration, and adding some properties for friction and gravity, it resulted in a 2D cloth simulation (at least after some updates I just did since I needed…