Coding Adventure: Simulating Fluids

Let's try to convince a bunch of particles to behave (at least somewhat) like water.
Written in C# and HLSL, and running inside the Unity engine.

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Source code:
* GitHub: https://github.com/SebLague/Fluid-Sim/tree/Episode-01

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Credits and References:
* https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/publications/sca03.pdf
* https://web.archive.org/web/20250106201614/http://www.ligum.umontreal.ca/Clavet-2005-PVFS/pvfs.pdf
* https://sph-tutorial.physics-simulation.org/pdf/SPH_Tutorial.pdf
* https://web.archive.org/web/20140725014123/https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/samples/5_Simulations/particles/doc/particles.pdf
* Music: https://github.com/SebLague/Misc-Project-Info/blob/main/Coding-Adventures/Fluid-Sim.txt

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 Gravity and Collisions
2:31 Smoothed Particles
3:55 Calculating Density
7:53 The Interpolation Equation
11:58 Gradient Calculations
15:38 The Pressure Force
19:19 Trying to Make it Work...
22:05 Optimizing Particle Lookups
26:31 Spatial Grid Code
27:48 Position Predictions
30:32 Mouse Force
33:22 Artificial Viscosity
36:46 Pressure Problems
39:51 Bugs
41:06 Parallel Sorting
43:22 Some Tests and Experiments
44:47 The Third Dimension
47:23 Outro