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Simulate red blood cells in an artery

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Simulate red blood cells in an artery

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri and today we're going to take a look at particle flow and specifically we're going to do a little medical animation, we're going to make red blood cells flow through an artery. Now this is also a very typical situation that you may encounter, so this technique can be applied to anything where you have objects flowing into a fluid, so either through a pipe or in a ditch or something like that. So, let's get started. I have a little tiny red blood cell and then I have a larger artery. Now the artery is basically just a cylinder that's been deformed a little bit, so that it looks a little bit noisier, and then I also modeled it along an arc, so that way when I look down it I don't see the end, and that's really the only reason I curved that was so that we can maintain the illusion. What we're going to do is we're going to draw a curve down this and use that for particle flow. So the first thing I want to do is draw a NURBS curve. Now when we do that…

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