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yconst
Visualizing Flows
May 7th, 2010, 3:56pm  
hey all,

I just posted on my blog a few images of rendered sculptures based on visualizations of fluid flows around objects, done with a small prog I developed in processing, TN7. Program is also available +source

EDIT: Just for credits sake, TN7 is based on the MSAFluid library.

Link:

http://prototy.blogspot.com/2010/05/visualizing-flows.html
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Smitty
Re: Visualizing Flows
Reply #1 - May 8th, 2010, 9:30am  
This looks very cool.  (Half of my grad school work dealt with flows past an airfoil.)

I think I recognize the last three "sculptures" as representing the flow past the airfoil in the last picture.  What are the objects obstructing the flow in the other images?
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introspector
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Reply #2 - May 8th, 2010, 10:57am  
nice work...

can imagine some uses for this in design & architecture.

regards,

corneel
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yelele_eu
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Reply #3 - May 8th, 2010, 5:19pm  
looks nice
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yconst
Re: Visualizing Flows
Reply #4 - May 8th, 2010, 7:01pm  
thank you all for commenting

@smitty: Thanks. The first three images are a result of an airfoil too, with different simulation parameters and a different angle. The middle ones that look jagged are a result of simple 'lines' (planes) and 'thrusters', linear elements that increase the fluid flow perpendicular to their direction.

@introspector: While this started as a personal obsession with fluid dynamics, an application to a design field was always in the back of my head, being an architect myself. I could imagine i.e. combining user specified surfaces with flow-induces surfaces and textures to "augment" designs by introducing new features to user-specified geometry. One such (maybe not so cutting edge) example could be streamlining in industrial design.
So if it just happens that you come across any application related to fluid dynamics I'd be really excited to know!

Thanks again
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nardove
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Reply #5 - May 12th, 2010, 1:13am  
Nice renders, very cool!

rS
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bojan mitrovic
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Reply #6 - May 17th, 2010, 10:44am  
Nice...
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Cedric
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Reply #7 - May 17th, 2010, 1:02pm  
what can i say. i guess i add another NICE!
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Michele
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Reply #8 - May 19th, 2010, 12:01pm  
Excellent work!  Your flows are very creative, and with dark and light simulate flows.   Smiley
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yconst
Re: Visualizing Flows
Reply #9 - May 19th, 2010, 3:37pm  
Thanks a lot to everyone! Your comments are very encouraging!
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