We need liquid physics damnit! we need BEER!

[W1nTry]

This is so funny, sounds like something out of an old 80's movie (can't recal the name at present)

Hi-tech computers analyse beer

I tell you, itsh work!

By Nick Farrell: Monday 11 September 2006, 15:48
 
AUSSIE RESEARCH outfit CSIRO is spending a fortune in computer time analysing beer.

Top boffin Mahesh Prakash said such research was vital to the computer industry and would take at least four years to complete, or whenever the beer ran out.

Prakash wants to get a computer to simulate realistically the movement of water for the movie and gaming industries using complex mathematical algorithms.

Beer with its colour, shape, bubbles, froth is the perfect thing to test the algorithms on, he reckons. Besides, you can always drink it if the algorithm crunching gets a bit stressful.

Prakash told the Sydney Morning Herald as beer flows into a mug, it creates quite a few bubbles and then forms a foam on top, which poses a difficult challenge from a physics point of view.

The aim will be to create a computer graphics system that allows to control every individual particle in a fluid.

The four-year project is being run in conjunction with the Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. Oddly they have not found a beer sponsor. µ

L'INQ
Sydney Morning Herald

[Crixx_Creww]

ok so they are trying to realistically capture the motion of water for graphics by testing.... not water??

WHY DE FORK DONT DEY JUST USE WATER?

[New Era Outlaw]

ok so they are trying to realistically capture the motion of water for graphics by testing.... not water??

WHY DE FORK DONT DEY JUST USE WATER?

Beer with its colour, shape, bubbles, froth is the perfect thing to test the algorithms on

Yeesh. Can't ya read?

[Crixx_Creww]

um once again

the article says that the purpose of the research is to be able to better render WATER and WATER effects for graphics purposes.

Beer is largely composed of WATER so why de fork dont they just usee.....*drum roll*
WATERRRR

[Saxito Pau]

Crixxy Crixxy.

yuh know if the PCs they using had "conroe insde" you wouldn't make all this fuss.. FANBOI!! 

but it is a interesting idea....how well can maths simulate nature??