Simulating Inflatables

[perolalars]

I'm doing research for a prospective project
Has anyone any examples (jpegs/movies not sourcefiles) of simulating baloons inflating against each other and against surfaces or something similar? (Imagine baloons in a phone box).
Thanks in advance

[failure]

Why don't you photograph it yourself?

[joojaa]

Well that can be hard since there are no phoneboxes, here atleast, anymore (there used to be now 99.9% are gone, tjose that still are left can be found indoors so they arent in boxes)... They are history (well wahan over 90% carry a cellphone what do you expect).

[failure]

Now don't be self biased. We know Helsinki is the most wired city in the world but there is still considerable ammount of phoneboots scattered across the rest of the globe. The main problem here is finding the baloon large enough

[perolalars]

It's not a phonebox, just like one
it's to be numbers inflating against each other against a glass wall
It would be cool to simulate it rather that photograph it as it will be difficult to get the control I want

I have tried making numbers out of maya cloth and using fields to simulate the inflation but it's no good as the cloth objects don't "contain" the air so the differences in pressure dissapate before the effect builds
I am aware of a material plugin but it dosent handle colisions, and soft bodies don't manage the surfaces stretching etc...
hence the questionthanks again

[joojaa]

Yes yes but the tendency is worldwide its starting to happen allover the place (finding a phonebox in sweeden was pain, but in england they still had a few)... in year or a few there are no phoneboxes anywhare in western world anymore.

This effect is actualy computationaly very hard to achieve.

[bjohnston]

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I'm doing research for a prospective project
Has anyone any examples (jpegs/movies not sourcefiles) of simulating baloons inflating against each other and against surfaces or something similar? (Imagine baloons in a phone box).
Thanks in advance

Use Syflex Cloth Simulator. It has a nifty "volume" field that can be used as an inflater and deflater and additionally collides very nicely. This will do it for you, but as a previous post said, it is computationally expensive.

[perolalars]

thanks will do