Supercell on a Carousel (2005)

So, way back in 2005 or so, I submitted this video to SIGGRAPH, a graphics conference (it was not accepted). It was my first of two SIGGRAPH rejections, the second was a long rendering of the El Reno 2011 tornado before I had more finely honed my mad viz skillz. Anyhow... one from the archives! I used software called PoVRay (still being actively developed today) that was the only thing I could find that did what I wanted to do back then. I had to apply patches and hack the code to get it to work - I even wrote an article about it, my third one, in Linux Journal (Nov 2004) and I even got the cover image: http://orf.media/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LJcover.png I use isosurfaces (didn't have volume rendering as an option) to show different fields, and animate, zoom, clip, rotate. I remember after submitting discovering a bug in my calculation of vorticity, which is why the "tornado" in the center looks all... tortured looking (oops LOL). This simulation was run with NCOMMAS using Matt Gilmore's LFO microphysics, for those who want that kind of information....

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