Eric ‘Mootzoid’ Mootz has released a beta of emNewton 2.0, his new Softimage ICE plugin for simulating the effects of universal gravitation on particle systems.
The release comes with a demo of suitably intergalactic scope, showing clouds of particles coalescing into solar systems, each particle attracting every other within the simulation.
Happily, simulation times are rather less astronomical: Mootz quotes calculation times (excluding caching) of 10 seconds per frame for a one-million-particle system for a single Intel Core i7-based machine.
emNewton 2.0 is available now, for Softimage 2011 SP1 and above, price €99 (around $125).
Read more about emNewton 2.0
(Includes download link for demo version)
Tags: emNewton 2.0, Eric Mootz, gravity, ICE, Mootzoid, particle, plugin, softimage
Ryan said:
Man, that’s beautiful. He’s got it right. The more mass, the greater the gravitational pull, and when more more groups cluster, the group acts as a collective, single group of greater mass and gravitational pull on other objects outside the cluster. Great visualization. That was great to watch.
6:01 pm on Wednesday, January 18, 2012