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Spreading Liquid with Three.js

77 points • by mooreds • last Monday at 6:45 PM • 13 comments • view on HN

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andai • today at 5:15 AM

This is neat. It doesn't seem to conserve volume. If you spread the blob "inward", all the fluid disappears and you get a tiny thin spot.

That's a general problem I often run into with simulations. When you get it in the opposite direction it can have some very amusing results (e.g. energy in a physical system continues to increase).

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socalgal2 • today at 7:59 AM

what is the point of three.js in this demo? It feels like showing me a CSS effect on a DIV and saying "built with React". It's a nice demo. But it's not doing anything that needs a giant library to do.

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etatester • today at 5:43 AM

The conclusion made me sad:

> Publishing this may mean the method is no longer something special.

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brandonpelfrey • today at 5:23 AM

This seems useful (after modifications) for building a calligraphy application.

sacru2red • today at 8:25 AM

cooool

Conscat • today at 4:31 AM

I wish foundation really did spread this smoothly.

soft-boy-xyz • today at 6:18 AM

I'm impressed.

accumulator • today at 4:59 AM

This is magic