Fluid with Noise Field

Late 2020. When I was an undergrad at USC, Refik Anadol was becoming well known in the creative coding community in LA and elsewhere. I was very inspired by his work and attended many of his talks and projection shows. We developed a small friendship and he was very impactful on my pursuit of creative coding as a career. As I became a more capable software developer, throughout 2019-2020, I started to learn fluid simulations and more advanced particle system behaviors similar to the ones he uses masterfully. Fluid simulations offer an awesome crash course in simulated physics, high end rendering, and GPU programming. The better part of 2020 I spent learning by doing. This is one of the last fluid simulations I made. It is a simple fluid simulation, with currents/physics created by the motion vectors of a 3D noise field.