Houdini MPM Pahoehoe
After 4.5 months of pissfarting about in R&D—first with FLIP, then MPM, then back to FLIP, a detour over to Vellum, back to FLIP, and finally back to MPM—finally some pahoehoe lava worth sharing.
If anyone's keen on some light reading:
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Fink, J. H., & Fletcher, R. C. (1978). Ropy pahoehoe: Surface folding of a viscous fluid. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 4(1–2), 151–170.
Lodge, R. W. D., & Lescinsky, D. T. (2009). Anisotropic stress accumulation in cooling lava flows and resulting fracture patterns: Insights from starch-water desiccation experiments. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 185, 323–336.
Ram, D., Gast, T., Jiang, C., Schroeder, C., Stomakhin, A., Teran, J., & Kavehpour, P. (2015). A material point method for viscoelastic fluids, foams and sponges. Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation.
Stomakhin, A., Schroeder, C., Chai, L., Teran, J., & Selle, A. (2013). A material point method for snow simulation. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 32(4), 1–10.