I really hope so because no one else has done this.

I've learned a lot from and invested weeks of time into this, so I do hope to return to it at some point. So many ideas, so little time hahahaha

Can you at least show the code that makes non-intersecting circles grow and collide with each other like on the pig head?

Hmm, on the one hand, I just wanna give away and share everything, on the other hand,
it took me weeks to come to a refined and elegant solution and it feels a little weird just giving it away, especially since I might return to this and make an HDA to sell. But for you Bennell, as you are such an avid fan of this thread haha, hit me up on Discord : Wout#9629

Got it!

Hello !

I decided to revisit this, , cleaned it up, rewrote stuff, added stuff, lots of progressss :p
I split things up ( originally it was one HDA for painting, sculpting texturing, scales etc.. waaaay too much at once haha) gonna focus on just the scales now. More manageable, doable and fun :p

Some more updates with a dramatic pig and some more work on the directional growth of the scales:

Yeeeeeees, I added curved controlled directional growth, yippeeeeee

A little color goes a long way :p

Blending directional with non directional scales:

Looking great!

Thanks ! It's going really well with the progress :p

Alright! Glad to have you back doing scales again.

Bennell
Alright! Glad to have you back doing scales again.

Hello again ! :p Thanks :p

Can you explain the process?

Hi Bennell ! I'm working on in it right now, I intend to make a little video soon showing the workflow :p

I'm am very happy and proud to report my conversion of vex code to opencl is almost complete and that it is now order of magnitude faster ! More soooooooon :pp

Update !
For the past 7 weeks or so I've been learning Opencl and I have converted most of the vex parts of the setup to opencl wrangles.
Check out the demo :

Couple of renders to show the progress:

superb work here. love it