Exotic Matter has just released an impressive new CFD simulation and animation tool named ‘Naiad’ that offers not only a plugin interface, but a complete front-end package and software API.

Naiad is more than just a software package, it is:

  • a description of a simulation expressed as a graph: the Naiad Graph
  • an interface specification used to construct a Naiad Graph: the Naiad Interface
  • a plug-in API allowing users to write custom nodes in the Naiad Graph
  • a software package which conforms to the Naiad Interface and runs the simulation described by a Naiad Graph
  • an open-source software package allowing an artist to interactively construct a Naiad Graph using a 3D GUI front-end
  • a standard file-format for storing the results of a Naiad simulation, called the EMP format.

via Naiad – Overview.

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