Breaking down a Cable Generation tutorial

[ekreal 0]

Hello,

I'm looking for help breaking down this tutorial, specifically the cable generation part, which starts around 26 minutes in. Are there other resources that go more in depth into point-cloud based path searching algorithms? I would like to achieve similar results to the video and be able to generate non-intersecting cables that can be warped around an asset. I know this tutorial is older, so I'm wondering if there is a different way to achieve this with a current addition of houdini.

 

Thanks for the help!