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Watch CGI Fish Swim Around a Virtual Aquarium

Memukhin Oleg’s subterranean crowd simulation, 'Fishing day,' is heavenly.
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Crowd simulations take over the ocean floor in Memukhin Oleg’s Fishing day, a brief but beautiful CGI experiment. In just six seconds of animated action, Oleg (a.k.a Monkibase), simulates the fluid behavior of fish using a “fish flocking model” created in the graphics application Houdini. He sends the school of sea creatures through four stages of movement: cohesion, separation and alignment, obstacle avoidance, and flee behavior. As a submarine powered by Oleg’s gloved hand swims past the school, the miniscule CGI fish weave in and around an underwater shipwreck in perfect unison.

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Watch Oleg break down the specs behind his subterranean short below:

Fishing day from monkibase on Vimeo.

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