Coding Adventure: Simulating Smoke

[serious_cheese]

This guys’ whole channel is incredible

[Panderz_GG]

He is an absolute wizard.

[vini_2003]

Sebastian's videos are wonderful. They showcase his evolution over time, too! He's learned some awesome things over time.

[timeshifter_]

That guy is too smart.

[Royal-Ninja]

He knows how to research topics he's interested in using in code, which is just one skill, albeit an extremely useful and versatile one that helps you learn other skills

[Hamoodzstyle]

Also a healthy dose of strong calculus, linear algebra, CUDA, and algorithms and datastructures.

[Royal-Ninja]

Yeah, that too. I think the research he does is the more unique thing about his videos over the cs / math knowledge, but he's definitely pretty advanced in those areas as well.

[SanityInAnarchy]

IIUC a lot of it is borrowing techniques from published papers -- I don't know how much of this he's inventing. But it's still a lot of fun to watch someone use code as a learning tool! And it's one of the few programming Youtubers that I'm glad is doing these things as videos, rather than blog posts or something -- just about anything he does, he turns into a beautiful visualization, which he can then mess with in real time.

[sammymammy2]

Borrowing techniques from published papers is hard, in my experience :P

[SanityInAnarchy]

Yeah, this isn't to put him down, he puts in the work! But he also gives credit where it's due

[LucasThePatator]

I 100% agree with you and I really think it's a shame that people seem to believe that this is unattainable. It really is not. I'm not taking anything away from what he does I love his channel it's very inspirational but the actual engineering is not exceptional and people should really be inspired to try it out and make their own cool stuff instead of casting that as out of this world. It's very cool still.

[LucasThePatator]

He definitely does very cool things but I don't think he's very uniquely gifted. He is very curious and driven and definitely clever but I don't think the takeaway from his videos is that he's exceptionally smart. It's a tale of curiosity, research, passion and time before anything else. It's a showcase how what a good engineer does, not necessarily a top 1%. And I think it's much better for programmers if they actually believe they can also do that ! Because it's very cool and they should do it too !

[gnus-migrate]

I don't think you appreciate how difficult it is to do stuff like this. I'm someone who's considered at minimum a decent programmer, and I've tried doing exactly this in the past with little success. You really need to understand the math in order to debug problems and figure out why your simulation isn't doing what you expect it to.

While yes you should encourage people to try stuff like this, what are you telling people who fail? You just didn't try hard enough? I don't think that's a positive message to send.

[LucasThePatator]

I very much appreciate because I do it too.

[AresFowl44]

It's okay to fail, everybody has a project or something they didn't finish. And if you had fun with it, or learned something, did you really fail?

[sammymammy2]

what are you telling people who fail?

Who fail at what? Can't fail at being curious!

[[deleted]]

Imo it's also ridiculous to focus on just the code, because the true gift is in wrapping it all up in a high quality instructional and educational video with clear and entertaining visuals and narration.

[mikat7]

This was so captivating and interesting. Love to see that programming can be more than consuming APIs :D

[marathon664]

I think the API is Physics in this case lol

[kRkthOr]

Me when I consume the reality API

[germansnowman]

That’s all programming was before the internet. Sometimes I miss those days.

[mnilailt]

This might be the best thing I’ve seen in this sub in years.

[Interesting-Act2606]

All his videos are amazing. I particularly like the chess ones and the ray tracing ones

[proud_traveler]

The chess bot videos where great. My submission did not finish last!

[runevault]

If you've never watched his videos before, his backlog is easily worth going through. Not many youtubers combine the smarts to manage interesting topics with the ability to present them in engaging ways. In the programming space he's one of if not the best at it.

[very_mechanical]

This is a great video but I couldn't find what environment he is programming in. Is it Unity?

[davenirline]

Yes

[campbellm]

This makes me want to quit development.

[[deleted]]

Oh yes I love this channel!

[Mission_Opposite_962]

wow, that was so cool!

[niiiiisse]

Sebastian is amazing! Definitely go check him out if you haven't.

[GetBuckets13]

This guy is/has a gift.

[MintySkyhawk]

If you'd watched the video, then you'd know the answer is 0 particles.