Fluid simulations today are remarkably realistic. In this Comment I discuss some of the most striking results from the past 20 years of computer graphics research that made this happen.
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a, The FLIP Fluids Addon Development Team; b, reproduced from ref. 8, ACM.
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Zsolnai-Fehér, K. The flow from simulation to reality. Nat. Phys. 18, 1260–1261 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01788-5
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