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Contents 1 Dynamics Solvers available in Houdini 2 Dynamics Solvers available in Houdini7.0 3 Other Type of Dynamics solvers, not currently available in Houdini 4 Freely Available Dynamics Engines 4.1 Rigid Body Dynamics

Dynamics Solvers available in Houdini

With Houdini 7.0, a new context called DOPs was introduced which serves as a simulation context.

Version 9 of Houdini sports implementations of the following physically-based dynamics Solvers in DOPs:

• RigidBodyDynamics
• ClothSimulation
• WireDynamics : for wires/hair
• ComputationalFluidDynamics (CFD)

It also supports several utility Solvers:

• SopSolver : allows progressive modification of geometry
• ScriptSolver : executes custom script during a simulation timestep
• MultipleSolver : executes multiple solvers sequentially
• BlendSolver : blends the results of multiple solvers
• CopyDataSolver : allows the user to modify certain data during a solve.

Dynamics Solvers available in Houdini7.0

• RigidBodyDynamics (RBD)

Other Type of Dynamics solvers, not currently available in Houdini

Freely Available Dynamics Engines

Rigid Body Dynamics

Open source:

• Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) http://www.ode.org
• Tokamak Physics SDK http://www.tokamakphysics.com
• True Axis Physics SDK http://www.trueaxis.com
• Newton Physics SDK http://www.physicsengine.com

Closed source:

• NovodeX Physics API and hardware PPU http://www.novodex.com