19 May 2026

When I first stumbled upon fluid simulations in game dev I was amazed on how good the effect could be. I really wanted to learn how this works, but learning materials on this topic are suprisingly sparse - and those which I found were pretty difficult to understand. Nonetheless, I decided to give it a try; and - while I’m at it - why not create a blog post out of it to hopefully make it easier for the next guy?

Before we begin, I want to stress a few points:

I’m not a mathematician. If you find errors in my explanations, please DM me on Bluesky or send an email and I’ll correct it

This implementation is for learning purposes only. For that reason it is implemented in a way that is not the best performance-wise. Calculations are made solely on the CPU. We introduce way too many variables.…