r/LinkinPark

The idea originally came from an R&D task I was working on for a client project earlier this year. I liked the underlying behavior enough to revisit it later and push the technique further as a personal experiment.

I first created an initial simulation focused on the main velocity field, while also generating UVs internally as an additional 2D Pyro field. That first sim then became the advection driver for the bubbles and their velocity, allowing them to inherit the motion and flow of the fluid in a more natural way.

After that, I created a second fluid simulation using only the velocity from the first Pyro setup, combined with collisions and bubble velocity. This made the fluid react to spheres moving across its surface, changing the internal mixing and creating more dynamic interaction.

I also experimented with a non-divergent workflow in COPs, but for this particular look it was missing some of the organic, naturally unstable motion that I still get from the old 2D Pyro Solver.

A fun experiment in using Pyro not only as smoke, but as a flexible field-based solver for art-directable fluid motion and procedural detail.

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Thank you to the teenagers at work, for pointing this one out….

Hi! I’m a budding concert photographer and I’ve been a massive fan of LP since I can remember, Hybrid Theory was the first album I paid for with my own money as a kid!
I’ve had the pleasure to see them 4 times now over the years, here are some photos I took from the crowd at this years DL festival as they were headlining the Sunday.

It was an amazing set and an amazing close to the weekend! I hope you like the shots 😊

So if you guys have remembered, I ranked all the songs from Hybrid Theory last time and I’m planning to rank all of the songs from all of their albums. And today is Meteora. Just know that this is my opinion so let me know on what do you think.

13. Foreword (N/A): This is just one of their preludes. Nothing special.

14. Session (N/A): Even though this is an interlude, I certainly do think that this one is one of their better ones. I find this one pretty interesting and I still remember when it was used in Matrix: Reloaded in the credits.

15. Hit The Floor (6.5/10): This song in my opinion had a good amount of potential but in the end it ended up sounding really lackluster and meh. The only reason gets a rating above a 5 is because of Mike’s amazing rapping in this song. Chester’s performance I found however was just straight up cheesy and cringe, especially that horrid chorus. But the melody of the song is decent whatsoever.

16. Nobody’s Listening (8.8/10): Even though this is ranked almost at the very bottom, I still do think that this is a nice song. I really Mike’s and Chester’s performance and that flute is really interesting. A nice contrast to their aggressive usual nu metal songs. I do wish that this song was longer.

17. From The Inside (9/10): This is a really underrated song from Meteora, in fact so underrated I even forgot it existed. But this is a good song nonetheless. The chorus is great, the instruments are nice and is overall a really decent track.

18. Don’t Stay (9.4/10): Great opener in my opinion. Great performance by Chester, amazing drums and guitar. I don’t have much to say about this track. Just a great track and a great opener.

19. Easier To Run (10/10): I really really love this song. Everything is sensational about it but it’s only ranked low because the other songs are just better. But still one of their better slower paced tracks. Really great Chester performance here.

20. Breaking The Habit (10/10): Chester’s favorite track. And for a good reason. One of his best performances in here, really great chorus, brilliant singing and really well paced and fitting tempo and melody. Fits perfectly with Chester’s vocals on this track.

21. Figure.09 (10/10): What a brilliant track this is. Everything in this track is brilliant from Mike rapping, Chester’s chorus, the guitar, the drums. It’s all perfect and well fitting with everything else. And what I like is that it’s not such an overly aggressive track but has the perfect amount of anger.

22. Numb (10/10): The first Linkin Park song I’ve ever heard. This is indeed a special track to me as I remember when my dad used to play this. This is easily their most iconic track and for good reason. It’s amazing from the piano, that amazing iconic chorus and the verses. It’s all in place in this track.

23. Lying From You (10/10): Hot take but I think this track is better than Numb for a good reason. Almost no explanation needed. I love this track just as much as Numb but what I like about this track more is the way it’s paced. It’s fast, it’s aggressive, and it’s pure of angst. But that’s what makes it so good. The emotion in Chester’s vocals is what carries this track. Mike’s rapping is amazing as usual but I do think that Chester is the highlight of this track. And that guitar riff… eargasm every time.

24. Somewhere I Belong (10/10): This was very very hard to pick and even on some days I’d pick Lying From You over this but I’ve always thought this track was consistent at being brilliant. And in my opinion this will be one of my favorite tracks from them. Brilliant performance from both of them, great bridge and verses. But what makes me love this track so so much is the melody. Always managed to give me goosebumps and it fits so perfectly well with everything else.

And for the number one… It is

1. Faint (1000/10): Yes I did indeed pick this track as the best from Meteora. And for a good reason. It just sounds dope as hell, superb rapping, insane chorus, perfect amount of aggression, and is in fact my second favorite track from them of all time behind A Place For My Head from Hybrid Theory. If this song was at least 3 minutes long this would be even more insane.

Let Me Know what you guys think in the comments.

I built this from my old broken Casio ca53w by printing the 20th anniversary Hybrid Theory logo and put a little Easter egg in the back cover

I’m a huge fan of Mike Shinoda (wrote a history curriculum lesson using “Kenji” about the United States’ internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII), and also loved the Reanimation and Collision Course albums.

Anyone want to hit a (freezing cold!) showing of this limited-release movie?

I’m sharing my likely date and location to go.

Linkin Park had an art contest in 2023 for the 20th anniv of their album Meteora. I am a huge fan of them, they greatly influenced my arts and music tastes. This was my submission but was not chosen.

Rest in power, Chester Bennington. You are forever missed.