Simulation of the Commerson Eruption from 2'000 years ago on Reunion Island !

This simulation was completed in 2016 as part of a collaboration with the Cité du Volcan museum. It was a huge amount of work !

First recreating a 3D view of the current Commerson crater (thanks to collaboration with Alain Bertil !)
Then reconstructing the past of the landscape, resculpting all the valley (thanks to patient work of Eric Chahi !)

Then using the simulator to recreate the crater evolution, and the key phases of this major eruption !

Read more about the full eruption story here :
https://www.volcanosimulator.com/work...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crat%C3...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commers...

All scenes were rendered in LavaFlow Engine, built on OpenGL 4.6
(c) 2016 La Cité du Volcan, Eric Chahi, François Sahy, Alain Bertil