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Lava Flow — a viscous fluid study

Molten lava oozing between dark rocks: Blender’s Mantaflow viscosity demo, 171 simulated frames rendered in 4K on the network.

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until 15 Oct 2026 · day 16 of the campaign

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A dome of molten rock swells up between dark boulders, folds over itself and creeps forward — no keyframes, just physics. This is the official Mantaflow viscosity demo from the Blender demo-files collection, the scene the Blender team used to show off high-viscosity fluid simulation.

We picked it for the showcase deliberately: the simulation bake is one long, sequential job — the kind of task that can’t be split across machines and simply has to run until it’s done. It became our reference workload for keeping long-running work alive on the network. After the bake, the 171 frames of 4K rendering spread across the nodes the usual way.

Rendered end-to-end on OmnibusCloud: baked once, rendered in parallel, encoded to the clip you see above.

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