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fjkdlsjflkds on Dec 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time

> no calculus

"set each pixel’s brightness to be the average brightness of the immediately adjacent pixels" sounds like a convolution ;)

Cthulhu_ on Dec 20, 2023 [–]

It's a trick! Calculus puts me right off, but explain it in code and visualizable ways and I'm on board.

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