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Uploaded by on Aug 2, 2011

Using the Kinect to interact with a high-resolution fire simulator. The fire is simulated on the GPU and the simulator uses the newest algorithms to get best speed and quality. It also uses a custom optical flow shader to see how the depth map is evolving over time and uses that to apply forces to the simulator.

This video is captured in real-time and it actually twice as fast without the video capture. Specs of the computer are 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo, GTX 480.

Things to research if you want to implement this:
USCIP, cubic interpolation, multigrid, optical flow

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  • Awesome- would love to know if you built this in quartz composer, processing, or something like openframeworks... also, you should check out matthias oostrik on vimeo... he's doing great work with optical flow, but right now it only works with a graphics card that runs opencl. great job!

  • @gabemott i made this in xna and used the official kinect sdk though i've also been working on doing some stuff in openframeworks. i did a water simulator with openframeworks and kinect interaction but that's not accelerated by the gpu. my optical flow shader doesn't require a gpu that supports opencl so i guess it should run on more cards but it does require a fast gpu and usually those have opencl anyway.

  • How did you get the optical flow to tell which direction to force the simulation? Is it provided in the SDK?

  • @jojodi i implemented an optical flow shader on my own for that.

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  • @DesignerVIsuals I have the Same Question to the creator of this effect. I need this mod/extension/hack for a customer. Maybe kotsoft can write to us to cooperate?? Thanks!

  • I got into doing VJ computer graphics shows alongside several bands at a nightclub in Portland OR. One of the bands is called "Hot Property". This is EXACTLY the effect I have been wanting to implement. I have a high end NVIDIA card (580) in my VJ system, and already purchased a Kinect. I would LOVE to be able to do this effect in 1 of my upcoming shows. Are you interested in doing some sort of collaborative work? I havent started charging for my shows (yet) but I hope to in the near future.

  • You are doing what I wish I had the time to do.

    Have fun working for nvidia one day :)

  • OMG!

    It's the Human Torch!

  • looks really nice :)

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