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From: scott
Date: 7 Apr 2011 05:37:46
Message: <4d9d85ea@news.povray.org>

> This stuff is improving all the time of course. They have now managed to
> get believable fur and basic water working in CGI. But I've yet to see
> anybody manage really high-quality smoke or flames yet.

Google/YouTube "real time smoke" - there are plenty of implementations 
of the physical fluid equations to produce realistic 3D volume smoke in 
real time on GPUs.  Obviously if you're making a film you are not 
limited to real time, I'd be very surprised if you couldn't make 100% 
believable smoke for a film.

If you want some technical detail:

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch30.html

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