Introduction to FLIP Fluids
Published: October 5, 2010 for Houdini 11

Introduced in the latest Houdini version is a set of new fluid tools to work with FLIP fluids (Fluid-Implicit Particles). This type of fluid provides a useful hybrid of the volume based and SPH based fluid simulators.

Topics include:

• Setting up FLIP fluids with shelf tools
• Comparison of the three fluid types, Volume, SPH, and FLIP.
• Technical details of how all three are built from the same microsolvers
• How to mix the FLIP solution with POPs to get Total Artistic Control.

Instructor: Jeff Lait is a Senior Mathematician at Side Effects Software where he has spent the last ten years working on areas ranging from Geometry Operators to RBD to Fluid Simulations.

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