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The company Exotic Matter sold its Naiad technology for fluid simulations to Autodesk after founder and CEO Marcus Nordenstam and Chief Scientist Robert Bridson moved to the Autodesk company. Autodesk is not said to have acquired the Exotic Matter company itself, which has existed since 2008.
This means that Naiad will no longer be developed and supported as standalone software. According to Autodesk, Naiad customers will still be contacted by Exotic Matter and informed about how support will be handled by the company in the future. The fluid-simulation tool is now intended to be integrated into Autodesk products in the future; whether this will take place in Maya or another existing software product – Autodesk has so far provided no information about that.
Naiad is said to have already been used for fluid effects in films such as "Avatar," "Planet of the Apes," "X-Men First," or "Harry Potter."
The last release of Naiad was version 0.6.1; here is a demo video of the current features:
Naiad 0.6.1 demo – Coming Soon from Igor Zanic on Vimeo.
More information can be found here: http://www.exoticmatter.com
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