This repository contains code for our ICLR 2020 paper. We show how to train particle-based fluid simulation networks as CNNs using continuous convolutions. The code allows you to generate data, train your own model or just run a pretrained model.

Please cite our paper (pdf) if you find this code useful:

@inproceedings{Ummenhofer2020Lagrangian,
        title     = {Lagrangian Fluid Simulation with Continuous Convolutions},
        author    = {Benjamin Ummenhofer and Lukas Prantl and Nils Thuerey and Vladlen Koltun},
        booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
        year      = {2020},
}

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• Tensorflow 2.3 or PyTorch 1.6
• Open3D 0.11 or later with ML module (https://github.com/intel-isl/Open3D/)
• SPlisHSPlasH 2.4.0 (for generating training data and fluid particle sampling, https://github.com/InteractiveComputerGraphics/SPlisHSPlasH)
• Tensorpack DataFlow (for reading data, pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/tensorpack/dataflow.git)
• python-prctl (needed by Tensorpack DataFlow; depends on libcap-dev, install with apt install libcap-dev )
• msgpack (pip install msgpack )
• msgpack-numpy (pip install msgpack-numpy)
• python-zstandard (pip install zstandard https://github.com/indygreg/python-zstandard)
• partio (https://github.com/wdas/partio)
• SciPy
• OpenVDB with python binding (optional for creating surface meshes, https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb)
• plyfile (optional for creating surface meshes, pip install plyfile)

The versions match the configuration that we have tested on a system with Ubuntu 18.04. SPlisHSPlasH 2.4.0 is required for generating training data (ensure that it is compiled in Release mode). We recommend to use the latest versions for all other packages.

The ML module is included in Open3D 0.11 and later and can simply be installed with

pip install open3d

Make sure that the version of your ML framework matches the version for which the ML ops in Open3D have been built. For Open3D 0.11 this is CUDA 10.1, TensorFlow 2.3 and PyTorch 1.6. If you cannot match this configuration it is recommended to build Open3D from source.

At the moment Open3D needs to be build from source to make the code in this repo work. To build Open3D with the ML ops for Tensorflow and PyTorch do the following

git clone --recursive https://github.com/intel-isl/Open3D.git
# check the file Open3D/util/scripts/install-deps-ubuntu.sh
# for dependencies and install them. For more instructions see the Open3D documentation

mkdir Open3D/build
cd Open3D/build

# This builds the ml ops for both TensorFlow and PyTorch.
# If you don't need both frameworks you can disable the one you don't need with OFF.
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TENSORFLOW_OPS=ON -DBUILD_PYTORCH_OPS=ON -DBUILD_CUDA_MODULE=ON -DGLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=OFF
make install-pip-package

The pretrained network weights are in scripts/pretrained_model_weights.h5 for TensorFlow and in scripts/pretrained_model_weights.pt for PyTorch. The following code runs the network on the example scene

cd scripts
# with TensorFlow
./run_network.py --weights pretrained_model_weights.h5 \
                 --scene example_scene.json \
                 --output example_out \
                 --write-ply \
                 train_network_tf.py
# or with PyTorch
./run_network.py --weights pretrained_model_weights.pt \
                 --scene example_scene.json \
                 --output example_out \
                 --write-ply \
                 train_network_torch.py

The script writes point clouds with the particle positions as .ply files, which can be visualized with Open3D. Note that SPlisHSPlasH is required for sampling the initial fluid volumes from .obj files.

The data generation scripts are in the datasets subfolder. To generate the training and validation data

1. Set the path to the DynamicBoundarySimulator of SPlisHSPlasH in the datasets/splishsplash_config.py script.
2. Run the script from within the datasets folder

   cd datasets
   ./create_data.sh

If you want to skip the data generation step you can download training and validation data from the links below.

For the default data the training set has been generated with the scripts in this repository and the validation data corresponds to the data used in the paper.

The DPI dam break data has been generated with the code from the DPI-Nets repo. Note that the data has been scaled to match the particle radius used for our method. See the scripts/dambreak.yaml config file for more information on the scale factor.

The 6k box data is a simplified version of the default data with a constant number of particles and always uses a simple box as environment.

To train the model with the generated data simply run one of the train_network_x.py scripts from within the scripts folder.

cd scripts
# TensorFlow version
./train_network_tf.py default.yaml
# PyTorch version
./train_network_torch.py default.yaml

The scripts will create a folder train_network_tf_default or train_network_torch_default respectively with snapshots and log files. The log files can be viewed with Tensorboard.

To evaluate the network run the scripts/evaluate_network.py script like this

./evaluate_network.py --trainscript train_network_tf.py --cfg default.yaml
# or
./evaluate_network.py --trainscript train_network_torch.py --cfg default.yaml

This will create the file train_network_{tf,torch}_default_eval_50000.json, which contains the individual errors between frame pairs.

The script will also print the overall errors. The output should look like this if you use the generated the data: {'err_n1': 0.000859004137852537, 'err_n2': 0.0024183266885233934, 'whole_seq_err': 0.030323669719872864}

Note that the numbers differ from the numbers in the paper due to changes in the data generation:

• We use Open3D to sample surface points to avoid shipping a modified SPlisHSPlasH
• The sequence of pseudorandom numbers used in the data generation is different, which results in different scenes for training and testing.

If you have downloaded the validation data then the output should be similar to the numbers in the paper. {'err_n1': 0.000665973493194656, 'err_n2': 0.0018649007299291042, 'whole_seq_err': 0.03081335372162257}

See the scenes directory for instructions on how to create and render the example scenes like the canyon.

Code and scripts are under the MIT license.

Data files in datasets/models and scripts/pretrained_model_weights.{h5,pt} are under the CDLA-Permissive-1.0 license.