Hi all, I'll get straight to it…cell division - how would you do this? I'm liking the finite element solver a lot, but I'm no where near familiar enough with Houdini to be able to use it properly I think.
I don't think metaballs would work. I essentially need one object to split apart and become two, all the while being effected by a FEM simulation so they can all squash together.
…is there a way to get metaballs to refuse to connect at a certain point in time?
The main thing I'm having difficultly with is essentially simulating an object who's number of points is changing (due to metaball remeshing, or just general changing of the mesh). If anyone has any resources on simulating geometry while it's changing that would be a great help.
I've gotten decent “cell-like” results from projecting a sphere's points that intersects it's neighbor on to the plane of intersection between the two spheres and then smoothing the resulting mesh.
This I did in Softimage, but I see no reason why the same (or similar) could not be done in Houdini.
takita PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:22 pm Post subject: I've gotten decent “cell-like” results from projecting a sphere's points that intersects it's neighbor on to the plane of intersection between the two spheres and then smoothing the resulting mesh.
This I did in Softimage, but I see no reason why the same (or similar) could not be done in Houdini.
-T
Hey takita,
Nice to see you here. Could be nice if you can post a snip of your icetree . I would like to give it a shot in Houdini.
When I get further along with it I'll try and post the results after I've had a proper go at it - the ICE tree is a bunch of nested operations in a single graph (mostly on account of the sorting), whereas in Houdini I think it'd be better expressed as a series of SOP nodes in a foreach or something.
Here's trying it without all the foreach business, by triangulizing and computing a dual to get all the walls in a single go. Kinda neat but needs something more to work on a nonplanar surface..
You might be able to get some cool effects by stretching out a volume, then meshing around it. If you had features inside the cells represented as different fields in the volume, you might see them stretch and split into two as well.
