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		kaveh808 on Aug 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloth Simulation I did early work in mass-spring dynamics while at MIT (1985). My system was developed on a Symbolics Lisp Machine: https://medium.com/@kaveh808/7-how-to-make-3d-jello-69350751... I did simple fabric simulations, as well as 3d soft object dynamics. Followup work in the early 90's on SGI workstations: https://medium.com/@kaveh808/24-rubbery-cloth-and-numerical-... All of this cloth and hair development culminated during my tenure as R&D lead on the feature film "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within". The commercial Syflex system was an offshoot of that development.

moribvndvs on Aug 8, 2023 [–]

TSW’s hair and cloth vfx crushed my brain in 2001, and those parts specifically still look pretty good to me today. Kudos!

kaveh808 on Aug 8, 2023 | [–]

Thanks. I wrote the hair generation software. It was a Maya plugin. For a very early (beta) version of Maya initially in 1997.

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