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Re:ASCII interactive fluid animation by nkwiatek on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @02:34PM (#3568065)
That's right. Oliver Hunt wrote a full simulator and released it under MIT, which was so perfect as I was just starting to look into fluid dynamics myself, for what ended up being this website. I used his physics calculator component almost verbatim, and wrote the display/ui stuff I needed around it as though I were using a library.

I've done more serious touching of it, for performance reasons -- taking mults and invariants out of loops, or memoizing for example -- but I always ended up either breaking it or making it slower, so for now I've settled with leaving it alone!

Re:ASCII interactive fluid animation by olliej on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @03:45PM (#3568395)
Hurrah! Good to see it being reused :D