Issues with curves

[m___clifford]

Hello everyone,

 

I am new to Houdini and was wondering how to solve an issue regarding the overlapping or intersection of curves. As you can see in the supplied images the curves become messy and extremely close to one another. Is there a method in order to be able to either delete curves that are inside a certain proximity to one another? Or delete every second curve? Or identify where there is a cluster of lines or points and delete them? Im not sure of the best method to resolve this issue so any help would be appreciated.

 

(Apologies for the terrible screenshot images, the first is of the entire line network, and the second is a close up on the knee which shows some of the overlapping / cluster of lines.)

Thanks very much.

[konstantin magnus]

Hi Max,

you can measure the overall point density with pcfind() within a certain radius:

int samples = chi('samples');
float radius = chf('radius');

int pts[] = pcfind(0, 'P', v@P, radius, samples);
float dens = len(pts) / float(samples);

f@dens = dens;

[m___clifford]

Amazing, thanks so much! I will let you know how i get on

[m___clifford]

Hey konstantin magnus, which node should i be typing the vex code into? Im slightly confused how to implement your solution

[konstantin magnus]

Hey @m___clifford, it's for the attribute wrangle running over points.