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Here you go pcopen.hipnc

give the pcopen function a try! You can retrieve the position of each/the closest point that way and feed it into your goaldir var.

well, after further review it dawned on me that, since hes using a SDF, the worley noise can just be subtracted from the sdf values

I am following this great talk by Saber Jlassi where he uses noises to distort a volume (around 7:30). I do understand that hes using the aanoise to change his lookup position for the worley noise, but I dont get how he proceeds from there. Volumesample requires a vector input and I dont get how he generates a meaningful position vector from the single float output by the worley noise. volume_rock.hipnc

You could use a 4d noise, using the scale attribute as the w component. For your setup, if you promote the $CR attribute to a detail attribute you should then be able to use that as a scale. Random_Piece_Scale_mk_v001.hip

oh, you can just put the exact wrangle you have in the solver sop into a foreach iterating over points and get the same result

thanks a lot for your file jamesr, this is definately a ton better than what I came up with! I think the overlap is a result of your step size. What really put a knot into my brain yesterday was finding a way to directly calculate the pscale in a single pass eg. by finding the min. of the lengths of all midwaypoints...and all that amounted to is that I am pretty sure there is no way to solve this other than incrementing the scale ^^.

I am struggling to find a comprehensive solution for the following problem: Given a scattered point cloud, how would I calculate a pscale for every point that is the maximum possible pscale while at the same time avoiding intersections between the spherical ranges they describe. Generating the pscales between the points is easy of course but maximizing the space they use is giving me a lot of trouble. If you look at this image, you can clearly see the problem: Blue numbers are the @ptnum, red numbers are the number of their closest neighbour. Points 6 and 9 work fine. They represent each others closest neighbour, thus "touch each others surface" fine. It gets tricky when points are not each others closest neighbours. Point 7 is closest to Point0 while Point 0 is closest to Point 1... My attempts at "fixing the gaps" finally lead to this: But since Points 7 and 0 BOTH Need to be scaled up to touch their neighbour, they start to intersect. I am at a bit of a loss here.... ClosestDistanceTest_mk_v003.hip

Weird. If instead of using the extrudeFrontSeam group you create another unshared edge group between the two polyextrudes you end up with 24 points. Both groups are identical though.

So now I've wrapped this up into a subnetwork. Sharing it here as well as my random group expand, in case anyone cares. GroupMod_mk_v001.hipnc

I ended up mixing both of your suggestions...with a solution that seemed really obvious once I figured out I can just cast the group to an attribute. So now, I cast it to float, blur the attribute, then threshold it again. The cool thing is that I now also have control about expanding/shrinking the group, where a threshold of 0.5 will keep the bounds of the original group. And taking this further I could also keep the float attribute to control eg. fur length etc. Thanks for your help guys! group_blur.hip

I was wondering how one could smooth out group assignments after subdividing a mesh. Since the assignment is binary I thought subsequent erosion/dilation would do the trick, but it doesnt really work that well altogether. group_blur.hip

thank you a lot, the delta mush method works great! Smoothing the mesh aggressively before flattening and then copy overthe uvs to the original seems to work fine as well.

I am trying to generate nice, relaxed UVs for a distorted grid object. Ideally I would want to simply relax the initially generated UVs after distorting it but all the tools available seem to be focused on generating new UVs altogether. Having never done this kind of thing in Houdini I also struggle to understand how I could procedurally constraint eg. the outline of the grid to a square or all the points with @P.x==0 to a straight line. UVs pre distortion UVLayout post distortion Quickly generated UVs in maya to outline what I'm after river_UV.hip

thanks again toadstorm. I was playing around with this setup for a bit and found it more convenient to generate seconday debris by scattering additional points generated with voronoifracturepoints into a single voronoifracture, rather than using a foreach loop with a second voronoifracture. I was wondering which workflow is preferred in production?