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The flow from simulation to reality

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Fluid simulations today are remarkably realistic. In this Comment I discuss some of the most striking results from the past 20 years of computer graphics research that made this happen.

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Fig. 1: Two optimizations for fluid simulations.

a, reproduced from ref. 5, ACM; b, courtesy of Chris Wojtan and Eitan Grinspun.

Fig. 2: Advanced fluid simulation effects.

a, The FLIP Fluids Addon Development Team; b, reproduced from ref. 8, ACM.

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