Fluid Simulation

Made a real-time fluid simulation as my final project for my computation class using Python, Grasshopper, AI, and Rhino. I made this project because 1) I love surfing and I love the ocean and 2) because I was sick and tired of looking at 2d weather maps, or reading numbers on a screen to see how big the waves were, what the current was, etc, etc, when I wanted to surf. So I made a 3d animation that visualized what beach had the best surf in the year 2022. The animations and photos you see below represent a piece of the ocean water at two different locations (labeled below). The wave/mesh is meant to visualize the peak wave height of each day in the year 2022 at these beaches. The future vision for this project is to create a website/app that shows you these animations in real-time, for any beach you want to know about. Scroll to see everything I made!

These two images are of a code I created to parse the messy data I extracted from ocean buoys. This code is referencing the data I extracted from a buoy tracking the water at Its Beach in Santa Cruz. The data I collected contained wave height, water temperature, and everything else you can see in the animations and photos above. However, it was messy, so I created this code to clean-up the data and turn it into a legible set of information, which I later extracted and used in my grasshopper script below. The numbers, and visuals are not abstract, they are all derived from this set of data that I parsed and scripted.

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