Blender Demolition - Case Study: World Trade Center (slowed down)

Demo video of the development of the Demolition feature for Blender 2.5x/2.6.
The main purpose of this video is to prove the capabilities of my physics system development, if any. It is not intended to prove or disprove 9/11 conspiracy theories. I'm deleting comments that include hate speech, so you better think twice before starting an argument about the reasons of 9/11 here.

This test case scenario needed 10 minutes per frame to calculate geometry deformations and additional 5 minutes to render the image. The test system was an Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition with 3,33 GHz, 12 virtual cores and 12 GB of RAM.

Check here for the original speed version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_J7ak_IZXk

http://kostackstudio.de

For more information see:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=207866

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• steel
• building
• wtc
• physics
• engine
• Demolition
• WTC
• wtc simulation
• Simulation
• NIST
• FEMA
• FEM
• Blender
• Softbody
• Fracturing
• Shattering
• Tearing
• Digital Molecular Matter
• conspiracy
• tower
• fall
• Finite Element Method
• World Trade Center
• September
• Elevator
• Animation
• Towers

[zapper1998]

Nice simulation, I have the same cpu and Gigabyte mb, 24 gig ram, trying to set it up with Lightwave 11 and the Bullet Simulation.

Are all your objects on seperate layers, rigid bodies i mean, I built a 3d model of the towers years ago, and now LW 11 has bullet Dynamics, I am trying to do the same thing..

The Bullet Dynamics is awesome with the 12 threads...will figure it out soon enough..

Great video... :)

[KaiKostack]

@zapper1998 I didn't use Bullet dynamics nor some kind of rigid body system, this simulation is based on an extension for the soft body system of Blender. I don't know if Lightwave has something comparable today, though.

[11009535]

Ok.What exactly am I looking at here?A demolition or a collapse.If its a collapse,how is it calculated and what is the initiation point.And where is the rest of the building?

Thanks

[KaiKostack]

@xrayfishx lol. It's not that simple. Google for Hyper-Threading Technology and you'll find answers.

[xrayfishx]

@KaiKostack So why do they need 6 cores anyway? Why not just 1 core 12 thread?

[KaiKostack]

@xrayfishx The former, 12 x 3.33 GHz.

[xrayfishx]

@KaiKostack Is it the same as having 12 core 3.33 GHz, or a 12 core 1.665 GHz processor?

[KaiKostack]

@xrayfishx That's why I wrote "virtual cores". Because of multithreading it's nearly as effective as an 12 core CPU. :)

[xrayfishx]

U LIAR!!! Your CPU doesn't have 12 cores, it has only 6, I checked from ark.intel .com

[SayNoToTheism]

@b1c1jones But then why did the owner of building 7 say in an interview not long after that he agreed the building should be pulled and then him and his associates watched it come down?