nuki

You can use foreach loops and their meta import to do just that. Check out the detail() expression reading the integer number of the current iteration to drive the seed. The copytop oints node can even pack the geo for you. test.hiplc

Add sop creates a polyline between the points in order, the scatter sop randomizes point order by default hence the messy appearance. You could do branching lighting with some vex growth, an l-system or shortestpath sop. One approach might be:

Or use "Packed Disk Edit" sop, does the same as Neon Junkyards suggestion. Both work only for packed disk primitives - curious if cwhites python method works on packed geo/fragments as well.

I think its this one:

its probably the lighting and perspective you need to match more closely. The reflections in the reference look overcast, so try an overcast sky instead of your sunny one.

is it even emitting light or just visible to reflections tho? maybe the shaders have high reflection/low diffuse. hard to say without scene file.

x

did you set the type in the bind export correctly? There is a setting to inherit it from the input value.

If you could share the exr file it would be easier to troubleshoot. Looks like it would be a colorspace/gamma issue. Wtf is that filename btw

you could do that with 3d packing. They showcased that in the h17 launch presentation, its at minute 51:

so you have image A and want image B? The main difference between the two seems to be the density of the smoke sim.

iirc you will have to enable velocity blur on the geo, enable motion blur in the mantra rop and disable 'Allow image blur' v_pass.hiplc

You could take a look at wedging: https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/tops/wedge.html

I am not great at maths, but isnt 'accumulating' values in a solver node simply euler integration? Since your r depends on v and v depends on a which you are accumulationg, I'd say you are already using an integral to find the displacement. I'd love if someone confident in this matter could verify this.

You have to make a watertight mesh that fits the hole like a plug. If you used a polyextrude, let it output the Sides Group, isolate those faces and polyfill that. Then create a vdbfrompoly, like in the attached file sdf.hiplc