Differential curve growth

[none 3]

thank you for help me :wub: :wub:

[mestela 586]

Awesome.

 

Co-worker and talented so-n-so Matt Ebb has done similar stuff in Houdini, I'm torn between not wanting to bother him and pride to ask how he achieved his results.

 

http://mattebb.com/weblog/laplacian-growth/

[rich_lord 190]

That's so cool! I was only looking at this the other day.

 

You are getting close with that most recent surface version though. You should go bother him and get him to post his secrets! I would not be able to resist. It would save us(well mostly me) hours of flailing about.

[Farmfield 312]

Here's the first iteration of my setup.

 

[Jason 123]

Great thread, this! You guys are cool.

[Farmfield 312]

 

Great thread, this! You guys are cool.

 

Though great threads are hard to create without a great forum - so thank YOU guy's!

Edited April 2, 2016 by Farmfield

[dxhhx 1]

You guys are seriously great.

 

Reminds me of this attempt by Simon Holmedal not long ago:

 

[Farmfield 312]

Why use a line when you can use a circle!?

 

 

 

coral.growth.pops.hipnc

[6ril 54]

great thread indeed ! Thank you so much Richard Lord and matt estela !

Edited April 5, 2016 by 6ril

[Dave Stewart 29]

This thread is too much gooey fun!  Thanks for all the interesting ideas guys!

 

Rendered this out over the weekend, and was surprised by how stable the stacked solve was! Only crashed once.

 

https://vimeo.com/161562700

 

Hip file is a mess but I'll tidy it a little and post...

 

Cheers,

--Dave

 

 

[Dave Stewart 29]

And how about some text action?

 

--Dave

[Farmfield 312]

Silly Dave, trying to pass off something he found in the fridge and put on Vimeo as a render.

 

 

But I love the idea using text shapes as the seed - what did you use as substrate?

Edited April 5, 2016 by Farmfield

[Dave Stewart 29]

Haha Johnny! I have much nastier stuff than this in my fridge... 

 

I ran the shapes through a Solver Sop underneath the POP solver node, transforming each frames shape by $T. Took the accumulated shapes and extruded/VDB'd em.

[Farmfield 312]

I ran the shapes through a Solver Sop underneath the POP solver node, transforming each frames shape by $T. Took the accumulated shapes and extruded/VDB'd em.

 

Cool. And this whole process was half about meshing the results in a good/quick way. One method I played around with was points from volume in a solver SOP fed into the new fluid surface from particle SOP with a fuse in between for optimisation. In the end, that's probably gonna be something I will use more than the line thing which is kinda it's own thing while the meshing is gonna be useful for all kinds of accumulative growth.

[Dave Stewart 29]

Cool, will have to test that approach for meshing! Gotta love all the possible combinations of approaches.

 

Attached is a cleaned-up hip of the text growth setup...

 

--Dave

GenCoralGrowth_DJS_ODForce.hip

[Farmfield 312]

So here's my version of Dave's idea...

 

 

I didn't look at his setup before doing mine, so just comparing them now was kinda fun, same, same but different.

 

 

text.growth.hip

[Atom 828]

Thanks for sharing, it seems to work well with any curve or imported vector design.

[Dave Stewart 29]

Digging that jazz Atom!

[Dave Stewart 29]

Nice setup Johnny, great idea to just zero out P.y instead of using the agent projection node!

 

--Dave

[Farmfield 312]

Nice setup Johnny, great idea to just zero out P.y instead of using the agent projection node!

 

Thanks. And I live to simplify, getting stuff done as quickly and cleanly as possible, because in the end it's the tweaking that matters, getting it look right.

 

That being said, I love using nodes for stuff they weren't intended for, like you did - the polyframe SOP with N or v as tangent output is a personal favourite of mine.