How to Simulate Smoke with Shaders

This post will show how to simulate the diffusion of smoke using shaders. This part of the tutorial focuses on the Maths and the code necessary to recreate the smoke effect. To learn how to set up your project, check out the first part: How to Use Shaders For Simulations.

Introduction
Part 1. The Maths
Part 2. The Shader
Part 3. Simulating Turbulences
Conclusion & Downloads

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How to Use Shaders for Simulations

This series of tutorials will teach you how use shaders for simulations; in particular how to use them to simulate fluids. This first post will focus on how to continuously process a texture using a shader. This technique is at the heart of most simulations and will be used in this series to implement shaders that simulate smoke and liquids.

Introduction
Part 1. The Code
Part 2. The Shader
Conclusion & download

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