Definitely a common effect. I remember seeing this kind of thing in the demoscene a lot of times. In fact I remember seeing a larger evolution of this recently.

Definitely a common effect. I remember seeing this kind of thing in the demoscene a lot of times. In fact I remember seeing a larger evolution of this recently. What they did is used smooth particle hydrodynamics to simulate water, but then also use the text mesh as a local attractor. So the water would drip onto the invisible mesh, but then it would stick to the text just a bit more than normal allowing the words to form. Link: http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/ http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/