Back on topic … I rendered one more image with a more natural (outside) look
while using a sandstone texture. I think this might be an interesting topic for
ArchViz Designers to create such wall panels with Houdini and MoI. I could
imagine colored, like the first one, for interior design and this one for outside
walls.



Regards
Stefan

<Houdini is really amazing what one can do with it. Wish i had concentrated more on Houdini and not
on so many other apps …>

Yup, it's a 3D sandbox :)

Here's an little example of what you can do with curves too, looks close from your last post.
For every points of the grid, I compute the distance of the closest point from every curves ... then I remap this distance with my own profile, and use the result as displace (elevation).
Displace strength, max distance search and profile options are in the pink node.

WOW, that looks pretty awesome! Thanks a lot for sharing the file!

Regards
Stefan

This Host free easy one (Sections galleries) since more 10 years... : https://postimages.org/fr/ i don't see publicities maybe because of my Navigator ...

else
Very cool results!

By Stefan


Ah yes Artform...forget to explore more in depth ;) http://www.jingdiaosoft.com/products/artform.html#
(made an how to...in French...http://moiscript.weebly.com/artform.html

Houdini : ...alas not for this life even there is a free version Apprentice! :) https://www.sidefx.com/products/compare/

And funny all that was spoken ... ;)
return to the past (2007) http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=602.1
and enlight this cool tuto! ;)
http://www.anim8or.com/tutorials/from_users/focal_blur/focalblur_1.html

@PaQ : cool try of the 2D adaptation from my little image! Bravo!

Else
ZSurf 4 works like a charm!

Just difficult to find the good format bmp! (for me only prog Paint : 24 bits works! :)

Here texture from my old PhotoImpact more than 20 years old!!! :)





Of course another infinite possibilities! :) Render the very cool free SimLab Composer lite! ;) (max 1920 *1080 - Real Time)

cool results pilou

It makes also some text projections on primitive volumes! ;)

So yes, if you can afford the indie version, you can simply convert the grid into a Nurbs surface, and export it as .igs.
Here's a 512*512 grid, file size (igs) is about 15Mb, almost instant loading in MoI.

Torturing MoI =O) (1024*1024 terrain)

Curious : seems freeCad is very slow to import iges files from ZSurf! 2 minutes ! ( for 3.38 Megas ! )
Moi it's 1 second!

Idem when the same file is saved from Moi in IGES! it was the simple Pilou text surface above!
It's the same for you?

http://moiscript.weebly.com/uploads/3/9/3/8/3938813/srf.igs

About terrain
@ PaQ have you tryed GAEA that i am translating the site! ;)

https://gaeafr.weebly.com

Hi Pilou,

Yes I have heard about it !!!. Looks really great, and Dax Pandhi is a really good artist.
Out of the box it's probably a way faster solution than Houdini (especially the texturing, colors looks gorgeous !) ... but I really prefer to trade speed for flexibility these days ;)

About ZSurf Texture --> Nurbs

If you have no need to specific modify the volume and only render the volumes
just use SimLabComposer Lite! it's accept iges format! ;)

Else from my little texture above

Of course Moi3D can easily make something like this! ;) (make an array vertical lines then use Boolean Merge)

@Michael :can you integrate inside "ExplodeMove" an 1D, 2D direction for the V4 ?

For the moment here we must use distribute ... with 1D Scale ;)
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=8503.17



Of course if you want each piece as a volume make a general box first and not just a surface like above before the Boolean Merge!

Hi PaQ,

your DistanceToPoint set-up is pretty awesome!

My first try with an imported .iges file from MoI. :-)
(I show the backside, because it looks imho cool)

Hope I can post soon some ideas, with your
file and MoI.



Regards
Stefan

So many possibilities with PaQ's set-up … (where is that PayPal donate button :-))

I tried with a high grid setting (1024x1024) and used a Mandelbrot outline, which
I had created long ago with MoI.



Regards
Stefan

Super cool result Stefan !
I havn't invented anything here, I just lean it from this site :

http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/?title=Houdini
http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=JoyOfVex

Houdini is a bottomless well ! :)

Hi PaQ,

o.k., but you share your knowledge with pretty cool examples,
which I, as a Houdini noob, would not come up with nor find
the required resources easily. ;-) So, thanks for that!

Regards
Stefan

O.k., after a second try I had to render this Mandelbrot, to better see how it would look
like as an image. Looks a bit like chocolate … :-)



Regards
Stefan