I'm looking for something equivalent to 3ds Max's Topology Tool in Houdini, can anyone give me any advice? Thanks!

Can you upload a sample please. The original mesh and a processed mesh. Thx!

Hi aRtye, thanks for your reply

The original mesh is a plain sphere, the processed mesh(topology-hive) was automatically generated by 3ds Max's topology tool.

The tool can apply a topology pattern over the entire surface of a mesh, as shown in this video ->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6KJOb-r16w&feature=youtu.be&t=1m55s [www.youtube.com]

Tool info-> https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/3DSMax/files/GUID-7358B7AB-86DB-4B3F-9954-BB11AA6FF3FE-htm.html [knowledge.autodesk.com]

I have no idea what tool or technique a proficient Houdini user usually use to change a mesh's topology to a certain pattern?

Recently I tried to make a Voronoi pattern by using Scatter + VoronoiFracture + Fuse, it seems to be okay…but I am not sure if there's any tool and trick I've been missing? I'm still quite new to Houdini, lots to learn

For voronoi-like patterns, you can also use the Divide SOP's Compute Dual option.

edward
Divide SOP's Compute Dual option.

Cool!
Thank you very much Edward

BTW Jake Rice has just published an amazing in-depth look at the Dual thingy:

https://medium.com/@jakerice_7202/computing-the-dual-ff2a93077e2e

aRtye
BTW Jake Rice has just published an amazing in-depth look at the Dual thingy:

https://medium.com/@jakerice_7202/computing-the-dual-ff2a93077e2e

It's amazing, thank you very much aRtye!