Virtual Dam Failure and Fun with Water

Another AR sandbox video, showing how to build and fill up a large reservoir to simulate a dam failure, and just general messing around with virtual water.

Project home page: http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/Res...

This sandbox was developed by the UC Davis W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences (KeckCAVES, http://www.keckcaves.org), for a joint informal science education project with the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Lawrence Hall of Science, and ECHO Lake Aquarium.

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[StormyHotwolf88]

I WANT THIS FOR MY KID... and maybe myself.

[okreylos]

Well, grab the software and build one yourself. What are you waiting for? :)

[sour0deez]

Could I suggest you try to get this to be able to process some kind of 'wave'. So you can have realistic water reactions, tsunamis and not geloten blobbing.

[okreylos]

Please have another look. This is a realistic water simulation, but at a scale of 1:100, which is why the water looks 100 times more viscous than in an actual sandbox.

The simulation is based on the standard equations of shallow water flow used everywhere in hydrology; more details are on the web page.

[michaelh0405]

Life is an illusion

[Savage Sun]

You are an insanely cool individual.

[mfxmfx27]

and now let's play some AQUA AQUA (WETRIX) ;-)

[boulevard001]

OMG...no wonder the end of the world is near...

[thitchen007]

Problem is that the there's no feedback from the virtual world to the real world, the virtual water can not enlarge the real hole of the sand dam,

[DragonMaster2731]

I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ryanjames2002]

Woah the shovel isn't destroying but deleting epic u want one now

[StormyHotwolf88]

lol right? It's definitely on the wish list lol..