--- title: Stunning Forest Stream Simulation Made with Houdini description: CG Supervisor Enrique De la Garza shares a forest stream liquid simulation created in SideFX Houdini, powered by Theory Accelerated's Paradigm GPU-accelerated... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stunning-forest-stream-simulation-made-with-houdini-m4q0odpap twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stunning Forest Stream Simulation Made with Houdini | daily.dev og:description: CG Supervisor Enrique De la Garza shares a forest stream liquid simulation created in SideFX Houdini, powered by Theory Accelerated's Paradigm GPU-accelerated... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stunning-forest-stream-simulation-made-with-houdini-m4q0odpap og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/m4Q0odPap.png og:image:alt: Stunning Forest Stream Simulation Made with Houdini og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stunning Forest Stream Simulation Made with Houdini **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CG Supervisor Enrique De la Garza shares a forest stream liquid simulation created in SideFX Houdini, powered by Theory Accelerated's Paradigm GPU-accelerated fluid solver. Inspired by a Big Sur camping trip, the project took roughly 8 hours excluding render time. The Paradigm solver's speed advantage over Houdini's native FLIP solver made rapid iteration feasible on a single workstation. Foliage was rendered using stencil maps in Karma XPU. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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