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*no rabbits were harmed in the making of this video.

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and when the rabbits struck you they collapsed into a blob. I'd say you faired better than the rabbits.

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That's what she* said.

*Alice

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would you prefer a teapot?

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If you actually want to know, it's the Stanford Bunny, one of many models in the Stanford 3D Scanning Repository that is used extensively in computer graphics and physics tests. (Other common models you see will include the Happy Budda and the Dragon, all seen here http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/ )

These models are quite well known in this field, almost as well known as what gerrylazlo mentioned, the Utah/Newell teapot.

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I loved Stunts.

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The blood of a virgin.

Fortunately, 99% of diggers will be able to run it.

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Windows

* Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II recommended); 64-bit support required
* 64-bit operating system required: Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 or Windows® 7
* 2GB of RAM
* 3GB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
* 1280x1024 display with OpenGL 2.0–compatible graphics card
* DVD-ROM drive

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Mac OS

* Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
* Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
* 2GB of RAM
* 4GB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
* 1280x900 display with OpenGL 2.0–compatible graphics card
* DVD-ROM drive

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You mean the physics sim or the Vimeo embedded movie?

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Lol, they're just keep using the same half-assed implementation of Havoc that they did for TES IV and Fallout 3.

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I know it's not necessarily a physics sim, but if you have an hour or two the new Blender releases are capable of some ridiculously good looking particle sims (smoke, fire etc...)

http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/blender/introduction-to-smoke-simulation-in-blender-2-5-day-2/

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I've been enjoying Mograph 2 for Cinema4D. The ease of use and results you get are fantastic. Worth checking out.

I also toyed around with RealFlow which I thought was amazing (and it is) but this demo blows it away!

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you can't spell bodies.

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Yeah, Blenders new smoke simulation is great.
And well your at it, play around with fluid simulations too. (That's been there for a while though)

and soft bodies and cloth simulation too I guess.

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and free doesn't hurt. http://www.blender.org/

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Because it's not in any game titles... And it won't be for a loooong time. This is for animations.

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it's not real-time.

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Processing power isn't nearly good enough to render this kind of quality in real-time, much less alongside all the other game things going on.

Here's hoping we'll be able to later, though.

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Did anyone notice the animation stutter slightly during the real-time design demonstration where 4 pieces of cloth were falling. If it stutters with 4 pieces of cloth in real-time, just imagine trying to do an entire scene in real-time. This is solely for animation for now, but I look forward to being ever amazing at how they can make animations appear real.

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I seriously considered posting a link to some kind of tentacle porn here. I've decided to take the high road. Pay it forward.

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For me, cables = asshairs

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Especially headphone cables in pockets!

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The worlds greatest mystery.

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I actually saw an article about exactly this a year or two ago. Some people came up with a mathematical model for things getting tangled. I can remember seeing a video of their model in action. It showed how a wire ends up being tangled after random forces being applied for some time (i.e. headphone wire in your pocket as you're walking around).

I'll be dammed if I can remember where I came across it though. Probably here.

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Video tape your cables when no one is around and then play the tape back. What you will find is that cables are busy tangling themselves while you sleep.

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In Soviet Russia cables tangle you!

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http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/071003-knots-form.html

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Real time on a kick ass render farm maybe, I long for the day when this type of stuff is available in the viewport. Hopefully I'll see it before I retire.

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Nope, just some anesthetic.

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IM JUST A POOR BOY

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You need to get out more.

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Best. Porn. Ever.

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s**t, I was thinking games, but yes - porn..... you win, sir.

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mainly game development and CG in general

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Granting larger... 'assets' to female actresses. Go go Tomb Raider!

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What was that about Gran Turismo?

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Same program used to create Metal Gear Solid 3 / 4, Devil May Cry 4, Bayonetta, Resident Evil 4 and 5, Dead Rising, Street Fighter 4, Final Fantasy 13, Fable / Fable 2.....

The tech is already out there. It just might take several years to be able to pull it off in a real-time environment where shaders are being used instead of just showing implicit objects.

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I teach biology. But you never know when this stuff will come in handy! Bookmarked! Thanks

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Server farm.

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The issue is parallel programming. When simulating particle based effects very few things can be done in parallel. Normally the program has to process one particle or voxel before moving onto the next. Multiple CPU's therefore, cannot speed up calculation. If you cache particles or fluids in a 3D package, you'll often notice that only one of the threads is used.

Games can benefit from multi-core and multi-threaded systems, because they process multiple independent streams of data. Sound, graphics, I/O communication, AI logic can all be ran simultaneously with limited interaction, and the programs can be split into threads easily. In physics, things are much more difficult. In order to behave realistically, a sim has to treat the environment as a whole, and that means, processing every element sequentially.

Personally, I feel saddened by this engine development. It was the lack of a fluid engine and limited scripting features that made me switch to Maya back when XSI was at version 3.0. Now I feel like Maya's beginning to lag behind. Maya 2011 is a complete mess.

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It's Autodesk's Softimage. It already runs on most computers (though ICE takes advantage of more cores). I think the free ModTool even includes a fair bit of ICE functionality if you wanted to play around with it for free. Though it won't have some of the cooler new bits (Phil Taylor, the guy behind the Character Animation Tools, helped work with it so that you can now rig without needing bones and weights, crazy stuff - http://www.develop-online.net/news/30724/How-Softimages-ICE-Kinematics-will-revolutionise-animation )

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