Squishy Volumes at Your Fingertips
The Material Point Method (MPM) is a powerful technique for physical simulations, combining elastic, rigid, sand, and fluid objects. Over the past decade, it has become an important tool for VFX. Houdini and Maya already support it. In this talk, you will get an intuitive explanation of how MPM works and a showcase of a work-in-progress extension written in Rust that integrates MPM into Blender.
Speaker
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Managing Director at Algebraic. We make Squishy Volumes, a physics-based Blender extension for convincing squish and stretch animations. I split time between Rust, Blender, and playful physics experiments. Five years as a professional programmer. Master’s in Computer Science. Based in Aachen, where we build with an open mindset.
PS: I love cats
