{"id":234870,"date":"2025-10-23T17:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234870\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:05:14","slug":"now-you-can-play-with-the-3d-model-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234870\/","title":{"rendered":"Now You Can Play With the 3D Model Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">The biggest car news and reviews, no BS<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pw-incontent-excluded article-paragraph skip\">This week, one of RFK Racing\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/category\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> aero engineers shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/finally-nascar-engineer-performs-lightning-mcqueen-aero-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a cute aerodynamic analysis<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/article\/11221\/disney-pixars-cars-isnt-actually-about-cars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lightning McQueen<\/a>. AirShaper, the software company that turned the fictional talking car into a computational fluid dynamics model, hit me up this morning to share interactive aero models of McQueen and his animated rival, Jackson Storm. Now you can manipulate and analyze the cars in 3D for yourself!<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">AirShaper is a cloud-based CFD design tool. If you\u2019re making something that interacts with flowing liquids or gases (could be anything from airplanes to appliance plumbing), you\u2019ll want to mathematically study its dynamics within a simulation before you start locking in designs. So the basic idea behind AirShaper is that it\u2019s considerably more scientific than covering a car in tape <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QpsZ6etEAVU\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">like Ken Miles did in Ford vs. Ferrari<\/a>, but much more accessible than operating your own wind tunnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Speaking of doing things on your own, here are the pages on AirShaper\u2019s site where you can manipulate and analyze McQueen and Storm\u2019s airflow on your own computer or phone. Just click on the subtitle text or picture and away you go:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.airshaper.com\/simulations\/sim_PmabY6d8lpGEumeMBGMOKp9X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/airshaper-LIGHTNING.jpg\" alt=\"Lightning McQueen interactive CFD model.\" class=\"wp-image-6570055\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.airshaper.com\/simulations\/sim_GvK94Vam30PqtnqK3pkeW6ML\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/airshaper-JACKSON.jpg\" alt=\"Jackson Storm interactive CFD model.\" class=\"wp-image-6570056\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">As for making sense of those models, you can actually get a good dose of context from the professional analysis we shared yesterday. If you missed that one, here\u2019s what RFK Racing\u2019s Aerodynamics\/CFD Engineer, Seth Dillard, thought about Lightning McQueen\u2019s aero profile:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Finding yourself curious about CFD\u2019s more practical applications now? AirShaper also has <a href=\"https:\/\/airshaper.com\/sample-simulations\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a catalog of sample simulations<\/a> that let you look at the gas and liquid flow over quite a few different air, land, and sea vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Got a tip? Send us a note at tips@thedrive.com.<\/p>\n<p>Automotive journalist since 2013, Andrew primarily coordinates features, sponsored content, and multi-departmental initiatives at The Drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-234870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}