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[MG]

Lukich, on Jul 9 2004, 10:36 AM, said:

sorry, second take.  Mine was done with CHOPs.

It's a pity a few cones go through the sphere, but still very good.

EDIT: I haven't been very active here lately, I'm going to give it a try aswell.

[TheUsualAlex]

That's pretty cool! I hadn't thought much of using CHOP. Interesting indeed.

[mark]

thanks for the tip halion, got 10 cones now

[cpb]

ok here's my attempt.
the rotations are a bit flakey though;
sometimes a cone will just impact and
stick without finishing their 180. depends
on the seed.

-cpb

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•  conechallenge.mpg   129.65K   471 downloads

[Lukich]

ok, I think it's time to show the hip.  I'm looking forward to seeing other people's work because I didn't figure out a procedural way to make cones not go through the sphere.  Here's mine.

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•  challenge7.zip   16.34K   341 downloads

[bobster]

Very Nice Lukich.  Great use of CHOPs (which I'm still learning).
Looks good cpb.  How did you do yours?  Mine was done in SOPs using the Ray SOP to calculate the distance from the sphere.  I'll post my hip file soon.

Hey TheUsualAlex, is that your son or you when you were a kid?

Bob  

[FrankFirsching]

Ok, here is my attemp on this challenge. It's SOPs only. I'm trying to keep the cones outside of the sphere, but intercollisions between cones are not handled :-( Nevertheless, I used a nifty trick to create animation-paths for each cone procedurally. Hope you like it.

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•  flockSphere.zip   18.76K   293 downloads

[cpb]

auto generating paths, nice.
this one is just ordinary pops and vops...

-cpb

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•  cpb_conechallenge_tidy.zip   47.09K   330 downloads

[TheUsualAlex]

Hey hey. Those are pretty cool ideas.

@bobster: Yes, that's the picture of me.

Cheers,
Alex

[bobster]

Okay, so here's my hip file.
This uses the Ray SOP to create dist attribute to use with fit function which interpolates between two sets of normals.



Sorry this one didn't work.  See next posting.

[bobster]

Okay, so here's my hip file.
This uses the Ray SOP to create dist attribute to use with fit function which interpolates between two sets of normals.

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•  flocking_cones.zip   25.01K   339 downloads

[Lukich]

Cool solutions, guys!  Thanks for the challenge.  Give us more!!!!!!
I'm still trying to figure out the expression that sorts the points in Frank's example