Research and development

RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT

R&D is the core activity that drives Next Limit innovation and has allowed the company to develop such world-renowned products like XFlow™ (acquired by Dassault Systems in 2016), RealFlow™, and Maxwell Render™. Next Limit is constantly involved in all kinds of R&D projects, internally or in collaboration with other institutions, public and private, locally or across the world.

A little bit of our

FOUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

EVA

2017 - 2019

Development of a high-fidelity physical simulation platform for virtual training of autonomous devices (vehicles, robots, drones, etc.), applying deep learning techniques. The project is focused on the robotics and mobility industries.

EVA: Entorno Virtual de Adiestramiento para dispositivos autónomos. Expediente Nº TSI-100109-2017-3. Proyecto financiado por el Ministerio de Energía, Turismo y Agenda Digital (actualmente Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital). Programa Acción Estratégica de Economía y Sociedad Digital – Impulso Tecnológico.

CARDIOS

2008 - 2011

Advanced cardiovascular simulation for clinical research and diagnostic. Electromechanical simulation and 3D modeling of the heart pump coupled with vascular simulation by means of Fluid Dynamics technology.

CARDIOS: proyecto desarrollado en colaboración con la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos y financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Programa INNPACTO (Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica) número de expendiente IPT-2011-0916-900000.

FIRST STAGE

2016 - 2019

Fast and easy previsualization for creative industries.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 688244

JEWEL

2015 - 2016

API for an agile configuration of innovative web-apps for the global Jewelry Industry Jewel.

The project “Jewel”, developed by Next Limit Technologies, has been cofunded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness within the Spanish National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2013-2016.

GENESYS

2014 - 2015

Technology platform for collaborative creation of digital content, aimed to non-specialized users. Official R+D project supported by the Spanish government.

The R&D project “GENESYS”, developed by Next Limit Technologies, has been co-funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports within the Grants to the investment in capital to increase the legal offering of cultural digital contents in Internet, and to promote the modernization and innovation of the Creative and Cultural Industries.

MIRADA

2013 - 2015

Technology platform for digital content creation based on digital 3D assets and photorealistic simulation: Official R+D project supported by the Spanish government.

The R&D project “MIRADA”, developed by Next Limit Technologies, has been cofunded by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism within the National Plan of Scientific Investigation, Development and Technological Innovation 2013-2016 (File TSI-100600-2013-9).

MATERIA

2016 - 2018

Technology platform for collaborative creation of digital content, aimed to non-specialized users. Official R+D project supported by the Spanish government.The R&D project “GENESYS”, developed by Next Limit Technologies, has been co-funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports within the Grants to the investment in capital to increase the legal offering of cultural digital contents in Internet, and to promote the modernization and innovation of the Creative and Cultural Industries.

DATAFLOW

2015 - 2017

The R&D project “DATAFLOW”, developed by Next Limit Technologies, has been co-funded by the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and the Digital Agenda within the Spanish National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2013-2016. (Acción Estratégica Economía y Sociedad Digital Convocatoria AEESD 2015 Project ID: TSI-100105-2015-5).

PRISM

2013 - 2016

Perceptual Representation of Illumination, Shape and Material.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration. (Marie-Curie Action “Initial Training Networks“ Subprogram).

SKYCOAT

2012 - 2015

Sky Like Coating Materials for Hypogeal and SkyScrapers Architectures.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration. (Cooperation Work Program, Call NMP).

SAFECITI

2014 - 2016

Simulation Platform for the Analysis of Crowd Turmoil in Urban Environments with Training and Predictive Capabilities.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 607626.

PUBLICATIONS

2017

Héctor Barreiro, Ignacio García-Fernández, Iván Alduán, Miguel A. Otaduy.“Conformation Constraints for Efficient Viscoelastic Fluid Simulation“.
ACM Trans. on Graphics

2016

Alduán, I., Tena, A. and Otaduy, M. A. (2016), DYVERSO: “A Versatile Multi-Phase Position-Based Fluids Solution for VFX”.
Computer Graphics Forum. doi:10.1111/cgf.12992

2015

Francisco González García and Gustavo Patow. “Continuity and Interpolation Techniques for Computer Graphics”. Computer Graphics Forum, State of the Art Report.

2015

Francisco González García. “Trends in Continuity and Interpolation for Computer Graphics”, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (IEEE CG&A), vol.35, no. 6, pp. 76-82, Nov.-Dec. 2015.

2010

Hanna, Sean; Hesselgren, Lars; Gonzalez, Victor; Vargas, Ignacio. Beyond Simulation: Designing for Uncertainty and Robust Solutions.

2005

The SIFBUP Project. The SIFBUP tools for the assessment of passenger’s behaviour in emergency situations – IMAM-

2005.

2005

The SIFBUP Project. Passenger and vehicles simulation in vessels. XLIV NAVAL ENGINEERING TECHNICAL SESSIONS – Barcelona.

2003

Numerical Prediction of the dynamic behaviour of a ro-ro ship after a hull side damage. International Conference on the Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles ( Madrid 2003 ).

2001

Passive stabilizer tanks simulation using particle based models. Fluid Structure Interaction 2001, 26-28 September 2001, Halkidiki, Greece.