NAIAD

Naiad is a dynamics solver and a simulation framework capable of producing animations of dynamic bodies including:

• liquids o large and small bodies of water o breaking waves o splashes and foam o accurate viscous liquids featuring buckling, coiling and bending motion o high degree of creative control while preserving realistic fluid motion
• gases o fire o smoke o explosions
• full two-way coupling of rigid-bodies to fluids

Naiad is more than just a software package, it is:

• a description of a simulation expressed as a graph: the Naiad Graph
• an interface specification used to construct a Naiad Graph: the Naiad Interface
• a plug-in API allowing users to write custom nodes in the Naiad Graph
• a software package which conforms to the Naiad Interface and runs the simulation described by a Naiad Graph
• an open-source software package allowing an artist to interactively construct a Naiad Graph using a 3D GUI front-end
• a standard file-format for storing the results of a Naiad simulation, called the EMP format.

We will now give a brief overview of these components.