emNewton2 (version 2.015) |
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| Type: | ICE Plugin |
| File(s): | Addon containing one dll/so file and several ICE compounds |
| Current: | v.2.015 April 2013 |
| Compatibility: | Softimage 2012 SP1 and above, Windows 64 bit, Linux 64 bit |
| License Model: | Floating, uses the Reprise License Manager (RLM) |
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emNewton2 v.2.0 (beta) - "Celestial Chaos".
A two minute long release video showing four simulations done with emNewton2.
This plugin is an implementation of Sir Isaac Newton's "Law of universal Gravity". The main difficulty of the implementation was to achieve reasonable simulation times even though each particle attracts each other particle (that's the evil O(n^2) thing).
The entire simulation and rendering was done on a single workstation with 1 x Intel i7.
At the end of the animation is a little more information concerning the amount of particles, the simulation times and the memory usage.
Description
emNewton2 is an implementation of Sir Isaac Newton's Law of universal Gravity, which roughly goes like this:
"Each particle attracts each other particle with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them."This plugin for Softimage's ICE can be used to create simulations that are driven by gravity, such as solar systems or stars with an accretion disc. Furthermore this plugin has a "fusion" functionality meaning that intersecting particles melt together.
emNewton2 is well integrated into ICE and works nicely with the built-in compounds such as forces, obstacles, subframe sampling and other effects.
