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Old 03-24-2018, 02:29 PM   #126 (permalink)
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Also,within a few years,Pininfarina produced lower drag cars using more 'classic' streamlining tools.
Which would those be? The Fiat Turbina was in 1954.

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The bodywork had undergone wind tunnel testing at the Politecnico di Torino facilities. The Turbina held the record for lowest drag coefficient on an automobile (0.14) for 30 years.
This gets back to my interest in OpenVDB and modeling CFD within Blender (which already supports OpenVDB). The sparse, shallow nature of VDB makes it fast on common hardware. Here're the original source papers: Publications
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