Ncca thesis on fluids and custom fields in Houdini

[pclaes]

Hi,

I want to share my thesis on Houdini fluids as it might be an interesting read for people that want to get a better understanding about what is going on under the hood.

The thesis is about "Controlling fluid simulations with custom fields in Houdini".

You can find the thesis, some tools and hip files, a movie and some images here:

http://nccastaff.bournemouth.ac.uk/jmacey/MastersProjects/MSc09/Claes/index.html

Some of the other 2009 MSc projects that were created by students at the NCCA in Bournemouth can be found here (some of them use Houdini, but not all):

http://nccastaff.bournemouth.ac.uk/jmacey/MastersProjects/MSc09/index.html

At some point in the future I hope to make some video tutorials explaining some of the above step by step and going from beginner level to more advanced.

kind regards,

Peter Claes

Edited August 26, 2009 by pclaes

[itriix]

I really appreciate you sharing your hip files and thesis with us all! Thanks a lot. I'm going to be dissecting everything. I feel like I just found buried treasure

Cheers,

Jonathan

[jason_slab]

hey

thx for posting this, some really cool stuffs..

jason

[eetu]

Now, this is really very interesting.

Appreciated!

eetu.

[Marc]

Nice, thanks for sharing.

M

[Fomal]

Read it last night. Very well structured thesis, great examples and will be a good source of help for many (including me). And thanks for mentioning me in the end

[ihab]

thanks for sharing man!

[bhaveshpandey]

cant thank you enough!!

much appreciated Peter!

I guess Christmas dropped in early

[shareu]

Thanks ^^

I want to know thesis!

[pclaes]

Thanks for the appreciation. I hope it helps to give a better understanding.

I've posted this on a few places and hope it will result in more people converting to Houdini and more people using Houdini fluids. As I personally think it is a very powerful area that could do with more cool examples and people using it in unconventional ways (and hopefully also sharing the results with the community).

This thesis was inspired by some of the posts, discussions, ideas, example files posted here on odforce. So a thank you does go to the odforce community. I just brought a lot of ideas and information of different places together and tried to get a few examples going so people would see how some of these ideas could be implemented in Houdini.

Have fun with it and definitely post some results if you create something cool with custom fields or Houdini fluids in general!

[curveU]

Thanks Peter!

[sanlin]

Thanks Peter! love your projects!