Hello everyone, I've been exploring Houdini. I have plenty of high-res scanned Pen Art (on paper) which are mostly abstract dense line-art patterns. I was looking to bring it to life in Houdini. But since I am still exploring, I'm not aware of all the possibilities. Would love ideas on what effects I could look into to create something fun and fascinating out of my scanned artworks. Attaching an example.

Started with trace sop. Would love to explore what possibilities are there as next step..

Thank you!

Heightfield file sop, set height to 10, append a heightfield erode node, let it play. Experiment with all the other heightfield/terrain nodes, there's loads.

Trace Sop would also be a good candidate to start with. It converts your art to points and polygons.

Cheers
CYTE

Best solution its just to make 20 to 30 those patterns(something like a little schablones) in Houdini( i posted in odforce how to make with chops any pattern-user Librarian) and fit-In uv by voronoi or vice versa in Houdini ,than in Houdini you have endless possibility to make abs any animation,fluid -wraping -solver l-system-vellum .mah.. sky its limit... I think (everything depend on your imagination)...You are restricted with design and animation if you just convert those (already nice and good for me) designs in Houdini with Trace...

Have Fun..