This could be the first ever complete computer graphics beer pour, an entire glass filling with beer. It's the title animation of The American More

This could be the first ever complete computer graphics beer pour, an entire glass filling with beer. It's the title animation of The American Brew, a film by Roger Sherman, to be shown on A&E on April 7th at 10:00 PM. In creating the pour, graphic designer Marcelo Cermak, learned it may never have been done before. It was produced with RealFlow, a 3-D Liquid Simulator particle-based program, which uses physical properties to control the behavior of the particles. They actually interact with each other and react according to impulses, forces and accelerations. Early animations had foam bouncing out of the glass, creating a simulated, wet mess. The sequence calculated 250,000 particles in the 14 second simulation, creating a fine polygonal mesh with thousands of polygons. It took more than a dozen simulations to create the final look, realistic beer pouring into the glass. 40 hours of rendering was needed to see the results each time the animation was altered. The most difficult task was creating the beer foam, which was rendered against a white background, where the foam was harder to define. The result is such a realistic animation, few will realize how much time and effort went into it. RealFlow has been used in various movie productions such as Poseidon, The Guardian and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The American Brew: producer, director, cinematographer Roger Sherman, producer, writer Jesse Sweet, editor Merril Stern, narrator Tovah Feldshuh, music composer by Teese Gohl, associate producers Brainerd Taylor & Lila Thaw, graphic designer and animator Marcelo Cermak, produced by Florentine Films/Sherman Pictures LLC (www.florentinefilms.com/sherman), presented by Here's To Beer (www.herestobeer.com).
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Movie loop from an interactive computer graphics program to demonstrate the gallery installation of "Botty Suzy" providing an interactive More

Movie loop from an interactive computer graphics program to demonstrate the gallery installation of "Botty Suzy" providing an interactive simulation of the projection of her metaphysical symbol. The Steel, rotating "C-Arm", mounted on the gallery wall, has at its "image plane" a tablet computer. A rotational shaft encoder at the axis of the "C-Arm" transmits the current angle of the "C-Arm" to the tablet computer via an Arduino USB device. A program, written in Processing displays the pre-recorded, digital X-Ray image on the tablet computer screen, which corresponds to the current angle of rotation of the "C-Arm" and angle of projection through "Botty Suzy". The interactive, pre-visualization mock-up for the physical gallery installation is written in C++ using the FastLight ToolKit (FlTk), the Graphics Language Utility ToolKit (GLUT) and Coin3D, the currently, truly open-source continuation of Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) Open Inventor. The program currently runs on MacOS-X version 10.4 for PowerPC.
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