Flip Fluid on Flip Dots

FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots 24 Sep 2026 Progress: Complete

Here's the story of how I put a FLIP fluid simulation on a flipdot electromechanical display. FLIP stands for Fluid Implicit Particle, and yes, the primary motivation behind doing this was the wordplay.

It was built as an installation for EMF2026. This page will mostly focus on the technical details, but for the overview and demo of it working, watch the following youtube video.

For the last few years I've been building all kinds of fluid simulations, though the only things I've made videos about are the volumetric display and the fluid pendant .