O/T Interesting goings-on at Ubisoft

[Cameljockey]

http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/lagoa-multiphysics-1-0-incredible-new-physics-engine-at-ubisoft/

[77Scout]

Wow, that is some amazing stuff. Too bad it is indicated to be primarily for movie special effects, and apparently not likely to be used in games. Some day maybe!

[+matt milne]

take a model with 10,000 polygons and recreate it a billion times, perform 10 minutes worth of physics calculations and apply it to each particle on a particle by particle basis (recalculating for each one) = 100s hours of processor time, per frame. so 30 frames a second is a bit out of the way for even the most modern supercomputers.

 

The biggest films use huge rendering farms (100s of computers networked together) to render just a few seconds of footage in 24 hours.

you will never see real world phenomena in games, or films, you will only ever see realistic ones.