About Exotic Matter
Exotic Matter is a software company developing state-of-the-art dynamics software for visual effects and 3D animation.
Founded in 2008 by industry veterans Marcus Nordenstam and Robert Bridson, the company is currently in alpha-testing of its first product: a 3D fluid solver and dynamics framework called Naiad.
Exotic Matter is headquartered in Sweden and is an proud alumni of INNOVATUM INKUBATOR.
Sponsoring and Financing
The company was initially financed with a mix of private investement from the founders, financing from the European Union as well as government grants and financing from Innovatum Inkubator, ALMI Väst, VGR, and Swedbank.
The Founders
Marcus Nordenstam has more than ten years of experience in graphics R+D and software development. He co-invented curl-noise, pioneered the use of the FLIP method for fire simulation, and co-authored the “Squirt” fluid simulator at Double Negative Visual Effects in London. Prior to founding Exotic Matter, Mr. Nordenstam held senior engineering positions at Industrial Light + Magic (where he was one of the original Zeno programmers), Sony Imageworks, Activision, and Double Negative. His software has been used on many feature films, and he has received screen credits for his work on Star Wars Episode II, Spider-Man 2, Hellboy II, Inkheart, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Avatar.
Dr. Robert Bridson is an internationally-known researcher in computer graphics and numerical simulation methods. He has made major contributions to the computer graphics field, including the FLIP method for fluid simulation, robust collision and contact algorithms, variational boundary conditions, and curl-noise. Following his Ph.D. from Stanford, where he worked on the original PhysBAM code, he is now a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia. He co-authored the "Squirt" fluid simulator, and has developed dynamics software for the simulation of cloth, rigid-bodies, and fluids used on many of the biggest films of the past decade.