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How about that pin table effect of the NY cityscape in that was in X-Men?
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TheUsualAlex 
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Posted 09 August 2002 - 04:14 PM
I am sorry. I am lost...
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Posted 09 August 2002 - 04:30 PM
WAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
*sob*....*sob*...
sorry dudes, inside joke....
Jens?
PS: hmmm rereading my post: sorry guys, didn't mean to be rude, it's just that it's the same exact effect me and Jens recreated right after we saw the movie.....got us all excited....
it's nice to see that it still captures the imagination....it's also a cool effect topic!....sooo.....what does everyone think?
you might wanna specify what cross-sections should the pins have...
cheers
*sob*....*sob*...
sorry dudes, inside joke....
Jens?
PS: hmmm rereading my post: sorry guys, didn't mean to be rude, it's just that it's the same exact effect me and Jens recreated right after we saw the movie.....got us all excited....
it's nice to see that it still captures the imagination....it's also a cool effect topic!....sooo.....what does everyone think?
you might wanna specify what cross-sections should the pins have...
cheers
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TheUsualAlex
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Posted 12 August 2002 - 12:50 AM
Chang, if I may ask, was the pic() or tex() involved in determining the height? 
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Posted 12 August 2002 - 08:31 AM
Hahahahaha,
Yep, Sirogi and I didn't waste any time after the movie and created a little pin table of our own. The hard part was not so much trying to figure out how to do it, but to decide if the pins were squares, or hexagons. After much debating, and consulting demons, we decided that it absoluted HAD TO BE hexagons.
So, we built a procedural hexagon table, that had variable resolution, so that in houdini, we could view it with, say, 100 pins, and then render with 2000.
Think it's easy to build a hexagon table??? Well, now that we know the answer, of course it is, but getting there took a little time, for whatever reason.
I'm sure I can find our little test animation somewhere... I'll try to make an animated gif and post.
Cheers!
Jens
Yep, Sirogi and I didn't waste any time after the movie and created a little pin table of our own. The hard part was not so much trying to figure out how to do it, but to decide if the pins were squares, or hexagons. After much debating, and consulting demons, we decided that it absoluted HAD TO BE hexagons.
So, we built a procedural hexagon table, that had variable resolution, so that in houdini, we could view it with, say, 100 pins, and then render with 2000.
Think it's easy to build a hexagon table??? Well, now that we know the answer, of course it is, but getting there took a little time, for whatever reason.
I'm sure I can find our little test animation somewhere... I'll try to make an animated gif and post.
Cheers!
Jens
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Posted 12 August 2002 - 03:18 PM
just wasnt around to see you all finish it! ...if you can, post the gif jens, id like to see what you two came up with 
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Posted 12 August 2002 - 03:36 PM
OK.... I am 2x as lost... 
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Posted 12 August 2002 - 09:48 PM
Hi,
you mean something like that ?
- animated texture ( heightmap of the buildings )
- 414.720 sticks
- image is only a fast test
you mean something like that ?
- animated texture ( heightmap of the buildings )
- 414.720 sticks
- image is only a fast test
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