I acheived something remotely similar.  I used isosurfaces. First I had a
general shape (this could be animated). Then I added some 3dnoise to it.  I
posted to p.b.a.  an animation which looks more like frothing magma, but I
think that with a little bit of tweaking you could get something that looks
appropriate.

I couldn't download the movie either.....

Shaw wrote:

> There is a company that does plug-ins for high end pricey renderers,
> there is an animation of a box being filled with a liquid that is beyond
> belief, for me anyway.  The website is www.areteis.com, click on the
> picture of the half filled blue liquid box and download the animation.
> Then let's figure out a way to do it......  Notice that just before the
> "water" hits the floor of the box there is a induced split in the liquid
> it seems, in order to make it flow around the box.  Anyone know of
> literature on how this would be attempted?
>
> Shaw

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