NAIAD

Naiad is a dynamics solver and a simulation framework capable of producing animations of dynamic bodies including: * liquids o large and small bodies...

Commercial
Windows
Linux

naiad is a dynamics solver and a simulation framework capable of producing animations of dynamic bodies including:

* liquids o large and small bodies of water o breaking waves o splashes and foam o accurate viscous liquids featuring buckling, coiling and bending motion o high degree of creative control while preserving realistic fluid motion * gases o fire o smoke o explosions * full twoway coupling of rigidbodies to fluids

naiad is more than just a software package, it is:

* a description of a simulation expressed as a graph: the naiad graph * an interface specification used to construct a naiad graph: the naiad interface * a plugin api allowing users to write custom nodes in the naiad graph * a software package which conforms to the naiad interface and runs the simulation described by a naiad graph * an opensource software package allowing an artist to interactively construct a naiad graph using a 3d gui frontend * a standard fileformat for storing the results of a naiad simulation, called the emp format.

we will now give a brief overview of these components.

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