3 Dimensional Fluid Simulation

This fluid simulation is an adaptation of Jos Stam's Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games for JavaScript in 3 dimensions. The solver models an Eulerian fluid using a discrete approximation of a modified Navier-Stokes formulation.

A major limitation of the simulation is the platform it lives on. Brower-based applications are not conducive to simulations like this. For the 20x20x30 simulation shown (12,000 elements), 144,000 polygons need to be drawn, corresponding to 432,000 coordinates, 1,296,000 coordinate components, and 1,728,000 RGBA values for each coordinate. And that is without consideration of the expense required by the algorithm itself. It is prohibitively expensive, resulting in moderate performance even at a low resolution.

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