[Cyberfish_Fred]

very nice physics software

movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5g9VS0ENM

info: http://www.vrlab.umu.se/research/phun/

download software (FREE) : http://www.acc.umu.se/%7Eemilk/

Have phun!

Fred
www.cyberfish.nl

[w i l l]

Nice.

From Umea as well.

[Maximus3D]

Great little program tons of fun to play with, and it's from Umeå, Sweden. Yay!

Thanks for posting this one.

/ Max

[Fernando Tella]

Have you tried this one?

http://www.armadillorun.com/

It's thought as a game. You have to take care of budget too.

[polynurb]

cool links!
great for the break time if you are sitting in an architecture office
...you know make stuff collapse

there are a lot of realtime physics games coming up, the first I saw was this one:

http://www.kloonigames.com/crayon/

which will be a commercial version of this freeware:

http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/crayon/

[mtripoli]

OK... call me ignorant... stupid... whatever... but why can't I do this as easily in, let's say Lightwave? One can do it, but not without a ton of setup...

[yanada]

cool

[polynurb]

@mtripoli

years ago i saw that havoc water in 3dStudio.. with things floating in it and you could interact with them in realtime (drag them around/dipp them under water, stack them etc.).. haven`t been into 3d studio much since then... if havoc is still a part of 3dMax, it might be quite advanced by now..

[mtripoli]

Too much freakin' PHUN...

[Leonardo]

I need to give it a try

[bjorn.syse]

Wow, very cool!

[Sheik]

Take a look at SketchyPhysics:
http://code.google.com/p/sketchyphysics2/
It is a free physics plugin for SketchUp.
If you haven´t downloaded SketchUp yet (shame on you), this should also work in the free version.
http://www.sketchup.com/?section=downloads

Some sample vidoes here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk5Lu3iziDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_aAycXHZKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsIi4WLO ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3w7VlcQ350
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPwyZQuk ... re=related
...and one for _Mike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhN7oE-x ... re=related
Sheik

[Fernando Tella]

Wow! That must be great fun when setting the decoration of interiors. Imagine placing all the stuff this way.

[bjorn.syse]

amazing! Thanks for the link Sheik!

I am on the look out for something like this to use with industrial design. What I need is mainly something to test volume centriods on objects with different densities defined.. Imagine modeling a chair, define the base as wood and some parts as some metal - and then turning on gravity to see if it stands..

Has anyone stumbled across a lightweight solution that could work with Rhino? I'm thinking Realflow is too much base on what I need.

regards,

- Björn

[mtripoli]

@Sheik: Does Sketchup import obj's or anything like that?