The same algorithms that power Houdini, Blender and game engines — cloth on springs, SPH fluids, position-based fracture and volumetric fire — running live in your browser.
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Particles, fire, smoke, destruction, and cinematic physics — in WebGL
Visual effects simulations model the physical phenomena that VFX artists reproduce in film and games. Particle-system simulations emit sparks, embers, and debris from a point source with randomised initial velocity, gravity, drag, and life-span, producing fire, explosion, and magic effects through GPU-accelerated instanced rendering. SPH fluid simulations in a 3D box handle up to 50,000 particles at interactive frame rates, enabling dynamic water splashes and fluid destruction.
Smoke and volumetric-cloud simulations integrate Navier–Stokes' vorticity equations on a sparse voxel grid and render the resulting density field with ray-marching. Destruction simulations pre-fracture a rigid body into Voronoi cells and activate physics on impact, using impulse-based dynamics for the resulting debris. These are the same computational techniques underlying Houdini, Blender's MantaFlow, and Blizzard's physics-based destruction in games like Overwatch.
Each simulation in this category is built with accuracy and interactivity in mind. The underlying mathematical models are the same ones used in academic research and professional engineering — just made accessible through a web browser. Changing parameters in real time and observing the results is one of the most effective ways to build intuition for complex scientific and engineering concepts.
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Every Visual Effects simulation here runs free in your browser, letting you experiment with each interactive VFX model — cloth dynamics, SPH fluid, fire and smoke particle systems, and physically-based rendering — without installing anything. Adjust stiffness, viscosity, temperature or shading parameters, observe real-time results and learn VFX physics online at your own pace, whether you are a student, an aspiring FX artist or a curious researcher. These simulations mirror the core algorithms used in production pipelines: cloth solvers power costume animation in blockbuster films, fluid SPH drives ocean and lava shots, and particle systems generate everything from dust storms to crowd sparks. Understanding the physics behind these tools gives you genuine insight into how the most spectacular imagery in cinema and games is actually created.