Marc Gissler – FIFTY2 Technology

PreonLab 3.2 released

November 21, 2018November 23, 2018
by Marc Gissler

PreonLab 3.2 is here! Besides numerous smaller improvements, this release also includes major innovations that open up new applications and new workflows:

Implicit viscosity solver: The new (optional) solver is capable of simulating highly viscous fluids at large timesteps and superior performance.
Optimized post-processing: PreonLab 3.2 greatly reduces the system requirements for post-processing and improves overall responsiveness of the user interface for large scenes.
Keyframe spline interpolation: The new interpolation method significantly reduces the effort to generate smooth interpolation between keyframes and makes defining kinematics even easier than before.
Unified Area source with cone support: All two-dimensional fluid sources are now unified into one. The new versatile Area source also introduces a conical emission shape.

Read more “PreonLab 3.2 released” →

PreonLab Updates

PreonLab 3.0 released

April 27, 2018April 27, 2018
by Marc Gissler

PreonLab 3.0 released

Three years ago, FIFTY2 was founded under the premise to bring the revolutionary PREON® fluid solver from university to industry. Today, this dream has become reality – PreonLab has found adoption by engineers around the world. Now, it is time to look ahead and open up PreonLab for more applications. PreonLab 3.0 is by far the most transformative update yet and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you.

An extract from the extensive list of new features in PreonLab 3.0:

Distributed computation: PreonLab becomes MPI capable – use clusters for even faster simulation results.
Additional simulation capability: add thermodynamics and evaporation models to your simulation.
Improved water wading simulation: increased reliability by taking into account the vehicle suspension.
Improved workflow: an entirely redesigned Playback and Simulation control and improved connection editor improves the workflow.

Read more “PreonLab 3.0 released” →

PreonLab Updates

PreonLab 2.3 released

December 14, 2017December 18, 2017
by Marc Gissler

PreonLab 2.3 released

It has been a great year for PreonLab – what better way to celebrate than by releasing a new version? PreonLab 2.3 marks the final update before the next major version and brings more powerful post-processing, improved usability and many refinements, addressing some of your most pressing feedback. Some of the most prominent new features are:

Sensor mesh:: Measure fluid attributes on arbitrarily shaped surfaces.
Improved usability: A redesigned message area and cleaned-up on-screen-display.
Better rain source: Rain drops with randomly varying diameters.

Read more “PreonLab 2.3 released” →

PreonLab Updates

PreonLab 2.2 released

September 12, 2017December 18, 2017
by Marc Gissler

We are proud to announce the release of PreonLab 2.2. It introduces new post-processing and export capabilities that will allow you to get more information out of your simulations. Furthermore, we added a much-requested new type of fluid source and extended the Python interface for more versatile scripting. Finally, PreonLab 2.2 introduces many usability improvements as a direct result of your feedback.

Read more “PreonLab 2.2 released” →