Kurtoon

While it wouldn't be a real-time view of the 4th dimension (you'd have to be a tralfamadorian to do that), you could use the time shift and copy sops cleverly to create a sort of time sculpture of something animated. The effect would be similar to winning in solitaire.

Thanks so much symek! All very useful stuff. I forgot about the point expression, I used it a while ago but haven't done much houdini since. tstex's post is great too…and I know hosok for real, he's a pretty crazy dude. Thanks again!

Hello,
I'm doing a scatter on a model (not scattering based on primitive area) and am having it compute the nearest point which stores it in the attribute ‘ptarea’. When I try and group them based on an expression, for example: ptarea > 0.5 , I don't get anything despite details view showing plenty of points with a ptarea value higher than 0.5.

Curiously, when I do the expression: ptarea < , it selects all the points. I feel like I'm missing something really simple here, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

edit: I uploaded a .hip that illustrates the problem.