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Videos and visuals from OTOM AFP Web, OTOM CFD and OTOM SPH.

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Find our latest simulation videos on the OTOMcomposite YouTube channel, and more pictures in the image gallery.

OTOM CFD: simulations rendered in Blender

OTOM CFD runs 2D and 3D fluid simulations on the GPU, directly in the browser. Any run can be recorded (“Record for Offline Render”) and rendered photoreal in Blender Cycles: the clips below are exactly that, from the demo scenes that ship with the tool.

Highlight reelCylinder wake, greenhouse ventilation, a spinning propeller, quadcopter downwash, a hand-drawn duct and a gas-sparged stirred tank (66 s).

Clips

Cylinder Wake with Glowing TracersA long recirculation bubble (dark blue) behind the cylinder, starting to meander downstream.

Greenhouse (Top View)Two greenhouse blocks seen from above, with gaps (vents) in their walls.

PropellerA spinning propeller in an axial flow; its blade-tip vortices wrap into a helix downstream.

Quadcopter DownwashAn imported quadcopter with four actuator-disk rotors (cyan arrows mark the rotors).

Hand-drawn Pipe (Control Volume)A pipe of any shape drawn with the brush: everything outside the drawing is wall.

Stirred Tank with Gas SpargerGas bubbles released at a ring sparger under the lower impeller rise, are swirled by the impellers and burst at the liquid surface.

More OTOM CFD pictures and the demo slides are in the image gallery.

AFP thermal-camera analytics

From the IR camera module of the OTOM AFP simulation software: real recordings from different AFP thermal cameras, read in the browser. The nip line is tracked frame by frame, the picture is sharpened by AI without changing any reading, and tape, roller and substrate are found automatically. Click a picture for the full-size image.

IR camera frame of a laser AFP head with the nip line tracked and tape, roller and substrate regions labelled — **Nip line tracked on a laser-AFP head**320 × 240 camera: the fitted nip line (cyan) along the comb of tows, tape and substrate labelled with their mean temperatures.

Low-resolution IR camera frame with tape, roller and substrate regions and the fitted nip line — **Tape, roller and substrate on an 80 × 80 camera**Tape wrapping the roller into the nip: regions grown from one click each, nip line fitted on the tape / substrate edge.

Raw 80 by 80 thermal image next to the AI-enhanced version of the same frame — **AI enhancement: raw 80 × 80 vs AI ×4**Real-ESRGAN ×4 on the user’s own GPU; every enhanced block still averages to its measured temperature, so no reading changes.

Four IR camera frames over time with the nip line tracked in each — **Feature tracking through a recording**The same nip line followed over 22 s at 59 Hz, fitted on 100 % of its stations in every frame.

Rotated IR camera frame of an AFP head with tape and substrate regions and the nip line — **An upside-down camera, set right**Recording rotated 180° so the head is on top; probes and regions turn with the picture, the nip line is tracked.

IR camera frame of a wide multi-tow AFP nip with the fitted nip line — **A wide multi-tow nip**320 × 240 camera at 30 Hz; implausible pixels are masked before detection so they are never taken for the nip.