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		mcphage on Dec 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time Heck, the Wii had Fluidity around the same time period (2010), and that's a lot weaker than the PS3. Fluidity was pretty neat—you played as a volume of water, changing states as you moved through a level that looked like a classic science textbook:https://youtu.be/j7IooyXp3Pc?si=E79rCrq2mdyZSKoF&t=120

s-macke on Dec 20, 2023 [–]

Well, technically yes.

Both use the same technique: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics.

But the PS3 was able to fill the whole screen with these particles. Hundreds of them. The game Fluidity seems to have approx. 20.

mcphage on Dec 20, 2023 | [–]

> The game Fluidity seems to have approx. 20.

It had more than 20, but... not by much.

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