rayman 458 Posted January 27, 2016 Really awesome and clever solution! Thank you! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Navneet Arora 14 Posted January 28, 2016 it is popping up couple of errors while opening the file, unrecognized parameters. Any solution? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Diego A Grimaldi 85 Posted January 29, 2016 Pretty neat Karl! Navneet, are u in 15? Cuz the file is for H15 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bandini 128 Posted January 30, 2016 (edited) Hope you don't mind, Karl, I coded a version of this in vex after checking out your file. Slightly different than yours, but using the same principle. I put two options in there, one to do even divisions between particles, and another to use a step size for divisions, so you always get a somewhat even distribution of new points. Match this to your flip particle step size, and I think that will provide optimized results. I also approximate normals on the point cloud and provide a random spread along the surface tangents which can further help fill in the gaps. There's an option in there to try and detect isolated particles and delte them, but that will slow things down a lot. HIP and OTL attached. splashExample.hip pc_gapfiller.hda Edited January 30, 2016 by bandini 12 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Navneet Arora 14 Posted January 30, 2016 Great job bandini, loved the setup though i wish it was in vops , anyways i will try to rebuild that in vops... thanks for sharing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strob 1 Posted February 2, 2016 Very interesting thread.o I'm a max and zillion plugins user since 20 years and new to Houdini. I'm trying to do viscous fluid tendril with nice blobby drops right now. I would really like to see one of Pazuzu scene file. I found that asset on Orbolt: https://www.orbolt.com/asset/vosiloB_::particle_surface_tension::1.0 Could Pazuzu's technique be similar to that asset? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pazuzu 294 Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) Very interesting thread.o I'm a max and zillion plugins user since 20 years and new to Houdini. I'm trying to do viscous fluid tendril with nice blobby drops right now. I would really like to see one of Pazuzu scene file. I found that asset on Orbolt: https://www.orbolt.com/asset/vosiloB_::particle_surface_tension::1.0 Could Pazuzu's technique be similar to that asset? Hi Strob! The Vosilob asset uses surface tension based on curvature decimation, so you compute the curvature and gradient of your surface field and use the two fields to push and pull in convex and concave zones, so the particle field tends to form drops and shape in nice forms. I'm using a different approach to this, I combine the curvature decimation technique with more additional custom forces and PBD based approach; So you got nice drops, tendrils, uniform distribution, and more volume conservation control; About a "fill hole" approach, I don't use a direct particle filling method mainly because of the volume gain, it woks in some scenarios but in some is not so practical, also all the particle field tends to grow and shape in a very thicker way; So for the hole filling problem I'm using a field based approach with some force, frame and pressure conditionals to control the volume gain and thickness, but this is still WIP, I'm just developing this at free time. I hope this helps! Alejandro microTension_v1.5.avi Edited February 2, 2016 by Pazuzu 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loopyllama 23 Posted February 2, 2016 Phenomenal work Alejandro! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pazuzu 294 Posted February 2, 2016 Phenomenal work Alejandro! Thank you! Here are some more tests to compare the new APIC method (swirly kernel) in the FLIP solver for H15 with the default one (splashy kernel) without hole filling approach; In those tests you can see a mask attribute as visualization, this attribute controls the weight or influence for the cohesion that controls the behavior, so red area is where full energy is apply to minimize the surface area leading to spherical shapes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_tension Also a chocolate like sim to test the pipeline in viscous fluids and with a standard meshing stage. Hope you like it! Alejandro splashyKernel.avi SwirlyKernel.avi preview_v004.mov Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strob 1 Posted February 3, 2016 Cool! the drops of the chocolate preview_v004 are really beautiful! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pazuzu 294 Posted February 3, 2016 Cool! the drops of the chocolate preview_v004 are really beautiful! Thank you!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pazuzu 294 Posted March 8, 2016 Hi!! Here is another update for the Tension asset! I hope you like it! Thank you! 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Farmfield 331 Posted March 8, 2016 Hi!! Here is another update for the Tension asset! Damn, it almost looks like you know what you are doing, Alejandro!! 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
merlino 17 Posted March 8, 2016 Wow! That's great!!! Felicitaciones Alejandro!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cybernetix 6 Posted July 2, 2016 Thanks for the great examples everyone Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nigelgardiner 7 Posted July 31, 2016 Hi There I wonder if someone could explain to me what the exported variables on the point vop Karl Richters example uses relate to please? I'm referring to greater than , search radius and number of points Have gotten well and truly confused here. thanks Nigel. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pazuzu 294 Posted September 8, 2016 (edited) Hey Guys!! Here is a video that shows a very fast and simple surface Tension Method! There is also an example file for you to inspect the method! Thank you! Edited September 8, 2016 by Pazuzu 14 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
