Can one make the Fluid 2d Cigarette example 3D?

[bjohnston]

Is this a stupid question or as hard as I thought?

[brentorama]

Try the particle string - make an emitter that shoots out a stream of particles marching in a row, you can make it so a curve gets drawn between the particles by checking out Nicolas DiHaussy's post,

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=193661

Once youve got a nice looking particle string you can copy the curve, bake it, run the sim with slightly different settings, bake THAT curve, and loft those curves together or however many curves it takes to get that weightless ribbony look. Here's an example

http://www.brentforrest.ca/Movies/smokeystrings_Web.mov

of course you gotta go a little silly on your particle settings, use pp radial fields, springs, all that fun stuff, this technique is also good for, of all things, simulating sillystring.

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