SPM Vector Components: Major New Release!

In this release we focused on creating a cohesive set of components that provide the flexibility to not only accurately find streamlines of given data sets and but also to intuitively manipulate and create new families of streamlines. Now, although we're really excited about the many features included in this release, they do add to the overall complexity. We've tried to keep the workflow as simple and straightforward as possible, but we definitely need your input on what you find useful/annoying/confusing....
But to highlight a few of the major developments:

The slightly monstrous Settings component for the Static Integrator can handle a very large variety of situations with a bit of tweaking.
The Dynamic Integrator is now a full blown particle simulator – emitters, respawning, lifespan, etc. We've even managed to get 100000 particles on screen without crashing....
Both the Dynamic and Static Integrators work on exactly the same engine under the hood, and can be interchanged with minimal effort.
A Dynamics library has been started. This allows certain predetermined to be plugged directly into both Integrators (like a gravity sinks, spiral singularities, etc...). We hope to hear your suggestions for expanding this library
The two Interpolation components can be used for anything from adding sample density to simulations to keyframing parameter settings
A very preliminary reference document will be available soon with some tutorials and examples – refining this document will be an ongoing effort, so bear with us.

And there's lot more...

Also, should anyone be interested in the math or code behind these components just let us know. I'd be happy to set something up.

Enjoy!

Tags: Components, Integration, Particle, SPM, Simulation, Vector

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Hambleton on May 20, 2011 at 10:30am

download it here

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on May 20, 2011 at 12:11pm

Nice Daniel...trying it out...super quick...

Vector Field Creater should be Vector Field Creator?

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on May 20, 2011 at 12:11pm

p.s. works nicely on imported vectors from a CFD program...

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Hambleton on May 20, 2011 at 1:52pm

Nice one! Have you tweaked any of the settings?

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Hambleton on May 20, 2011 at 1:54pm

We've also just updated the release - there were a few typos along with other minor bugs.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Hambleton on May 20, 2011 at 1:58pm

Some examples....

Attachments:

Getting Started - Static Dynamics.ghx, 133 KB
Getting Started - Dynamic Integrator.ghx, 115 KB

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Permalink Reply by Philipp on June 15, 2011 at 12:15am

hey. I want to make a simple flow with a disattractor point - how to do this (I cant understand how to work with vector addition) and how to make particles to spread behind this point (to diverse density?)

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Hambleton on June 15, 2011 at 7:37am

Hi Philipp,

Is this a dynamic or static simulation?

Do you have a picture?

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Permalink Reply by Aaron M. Ryan on September 24, 2011 at 10:14pm

hello,

The SPM Components look super exciting, but I can't seem to get any of the dynamic examples to work?

Any tricks that I should know?

Aaron

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Permalink Reply by Aaron M. Ryan on September 26, 2011 at 9:49am

I take it back...I have gotten a few to work, others are still out of reach. The videos you posted are really tantalizing, perhaps you could simply linger longer on the actual screenshots of the definitions... that way one could see how the components are connected and get a sense of how to proceed with hooking things up.

aaron