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Re:Pixels and voxels, the long answer by scsilver on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:47PM (#12595072)
Hey, Fire Engineer turned Software Engineer here, check this out. https://pages.nist.gov/fds-smv/

FDS and SmokeView, are the defacto fire simulator tools used by fire protection researchers/engineers around the world. Not only can you manipulate the fuel sources, you can manipulate the environments and rooms and watch the fluid and thermodynamics dynamics happen. Radiation, convection, conduction, flow gradiants, for you to see and play around with.

http://www.thunderheadeng.com/pyrosim/

Is a nice gui layer for FDS allowing you to import CAD files for your simulations and gives you some visual control rather than programming in Fortan for FDS.

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Re:Pixels and voxels, the long answer by wrong_variable on Friday September 30, 2016 @01:00PM (#12613657)
Fire Engineer sounds way cooler than software engineer !
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Re:Pixels and voxels, the long answer by scsilver on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:44PM (#12645478)
Well I hope to swing back into it in a decade or 2 after learning the software buisness. The goal is to modernize the current tools and leverage advancements in machine learning to help the industry.
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