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rmagee: Staff; 1421 posts; Joined: July 2005; Offline

March 26, 2026 midnight

Things just might collapse on Day 26.

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chimiart: Member; 27 posts; Joined: March 2018; Offline

March 26, 2026 3:28 a.m.

Day 26!
Channeled this week’s 'about to collapse' energy into today's Mardini. The loop is real, but the grind continues.

Screenshot:

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siddheshsawant321: Member; 28 posts; Joined: Nov. 2019; Offline

March 26, 2026 4:08 a.m.

Houdini Mardini.
Daily Art Challenge Day 26.
Collapse.

#houdinifx #mardini

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4412e182-8861-46fa-acb3-920c8f5e9623.mp4 (9.4 MB)


Furuya Takumi: Member; 223 posts; Joined: Aug. 2018; Offline

March 26, 2026 11:15 a.m.

Day26


EricaKim: Member; 28 posts; Joined: March 2019; Online

March 26, 2026 12:14 p.m.

Day 26: Collapse
We collapse and rebuild, over and over.

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JanHebein: Member; 101 posts; Joined: Aug. 2020; Offline

March 26, 2026 12:44 p.m.

Day 26 - Collapse

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samratacharyya_2000: Member; 61 posts; Joined: April 2017; Offline

March 26, 2026 2:30 p.m.

Mardini_Collapse

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pamplemousse225: Member; 29 posts; Joined: June 2023; Online

March 26, 2026 4:48 p.m.

Hello

mardini entry 26

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Wakaema: Member; 27 posts; Joined: Jan. 2026; Online

March 26, 2026 5:39 p.m.


johancc: Member; 51 posts; Joined: Oct. 2022; Online

March 26, 2026 6:57 p.m.

Day 26. Youtube kind of messed up the colors but hey, here it is.

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Sudeep-astrosynth_logs: Member; 26 posts; Joined: Aug. 2020; Offline

March 26, 2026 7:27 p.m.

Day 26 | Collapse

I took inspiration from an old Gems (M&M's) ad and tried to recreate it

UPDATED:
I finally managed to render it! It was one single setting that caused my PC to melt, but I managed to rectify it. The setting I forgot to change was in Stage > Scene Import. You have to enable "Packed Primitives" parameter and change it to "Create Point Instance" so it doesn't try to load every polygon individually. I learned how to optimize my scenes a lot more by doing this!

Edited by Sudeep-astrosynth_logs - yesterday 06:09:12

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eduardobieta: Member; 52 posts; Joined: June 2017; Offline

March 26, 2026 7:46 p.m.

Day 26. Collapse.

Edited by eduardobieta - March 26, 2026 23:29:14


LeePetrl: Member; 60 posts; Joined: March 2024; Online

March 26, 2026 7:46 p.m.

Day26 - Collapse - A fusion tokamak reactor collapsing!
And finally got lens shader working, so its doing some fun perspective smushing

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day026_COLLAPSE_snip.jpg (895.8 KB)


danielphillis: Member; 15 posts; Joined:; Offline

March 26, 2026 8:46 p.m.

new to this stuff ! alot of fun

Edited by danielphillis - March 26, 2026 20:49:10

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martinalex: Member; 50 posts; Joined: Oct. 2021; Offline

March 26, 2026 8:55 p.m.

Day 26 - Collapse

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EnYan: Member; 28 posts; Joined: Dec. 2023; Offline

March 26, 2026 10:37 p.m.

Day 26! Still here!

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collapse.mp4 (2.7 MB)
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Cheyane


mkarlowski: Member; 30 posts; Joined: Feb. 2020; Online

March 26, 2026 11:30 p.m.

Today it's a little more technical than flashy. It was time to awaken those dusty trigonometry memories 😄 The points for the card deck are created with vex, where the input is the levels of cards, the angle and the height.

After Mardini I would love to find a way to also procedurally change the material textures of each card.

Hope you enjoy!

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day_26_collapse_001.mp4 (11.5 MB)
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beyonick: Member; 31 posts; Joined: Nov. 2018; Offline

March 26, 2026 11:38 p.m.

I figured out what to do while playing Duplo with my daughter this evening.

PS. The real Collapse is when the electricity is off all day, and there’s still Mardini to do!

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HYUN_3: Member; 27 posts; Joined: June 2024; Offline

March 26, 2026 11:49 p.m.

Nothing more satisfying than watching all the pins collapse

Modeling the bowling alley took a while, but the simulation was the fun part.
Went through a few iterations to get the result I liked best.

www.instagram.com/hyun_k_3d/

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스크린샷 2026-03-27 123942.png (1.3 MB)


isonlygaem: Member; 12 posts; Joined: April 2022; Offline

March 26, 2026 11:53 p.m.

Mardini day 26 - collapse

Getting the cards to go from the deck and stack up correctly was challenging to say the least..

Got there in the end, enjoy!

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