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Animation

Lighthouse Flip Fluid Bender Simulation

Using Blender and FlipFluids Addon

This is still baking, so far 60Gb bake files and climbing at 334 out of 501 frames. Domain resolution used – 500 – ie High Quality.

Bake files grew from 55Mb [frame 1] to currently 277Mb [frame 333] !

Will update on the progress and final render.

and finally… after almost 2 days baking non stop…..

Below shows me trying to render one single frame and yet getting out of CUDA memory error.

I’m using a GTX1080 with 8Gb VRAM, on a i7 Quad core PC with 32Gb RAM

 

Youtube

A copyright claim was created for content in “Nigerian Flag”

Sometimes this auto generated claims gets ridiculous.  🙂

This is such a common tune, that l will when l have the time reproduce using my piano and loop for 1:57 min [the animation time]. For now, l decided to erase the song from the youtube video clip below.

I also cant believe this old upload got – whaw – over 6000+ views,,, for a very first animation program test l did sometime around October 2007. I have a better animation upload l will share the link to later.

Video


Claims

 

 

 

Blender

Blender Open Data

I’ve used several benchmark software to compare computer hardware especially nvidia GPU cards used for cuda programming.  One good free benchmark software is Maxon CineBench    , another is Unigine Haven

 

Here are surprising results generated from the new Blender Benchmark under its Blender Open data website program.

Quick summary/my findings:

  • less render time running Linux [LinumMint] than under Windows 10 [all things turned off], same hardware
  • SSD’s help

Linux run: Workstation with GTX1080 8Gb, GTX970 4Gb, 32Gb RAM, Quad core Intel processor. No SSD

Same hardware as above but run under Windows 10

Ran on same hardware, only using the GTX1080 8Gb , under Linuxmint – impressive resuly showing in my view and from cuda/nvidia research l did that the 4Gb of the 2nd graphics card limits the performance.

 

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Home PC #2  Results below, newer PC, no SSD, 2 x GTX560Ti

Below results from Alienware 17 [4 years old] with Samsung Evo 500Gb SSD, GTX860M