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There probably isn’t a single adult out there who hasn’t – at least once or twice – wished that real-life sound effects existed for everything they do.

If you play a lot of video games, you might have noticed that water seems particularly difficult to render realistically. It looks even less realistic when there are solid objects that the water has to interact with or move around. But a new fluid simulat