Amazing!!

It's just a gadget or you will want really code this sort of nodes process ?

PS
One Elephant = 100 000 Grashoppers! ;)

Sweet.

Years ago I wrote a simple 2D tool which would generate "aesthetically pleasing" designs based upon a set of rules and a genetic algorithm. Using a simple neural net and GA, it would generate lots of 'base level' designs, then allow the user to select the ones they liked and the program would 'learn' preferences and try and generate more.

The rules were basically very simple. Things like golden mean, circles (few), 3 levels of details, symmetry and some other basic layout principles, like edge detail are all used in constructing a simple graphic representation.

I could see how you could do something very similar, but in 3D (2 1/2 D) and create interesting forms like this:

Frenchy Pilou
>> It's just a gadget or you will want really code this sort of nodes process ?
I would like to write such a script, but it will take a lot of time.
The work can be splitted in three parts:
1. Main core ( I can write it )
2. Design ( I need a help of someone skilled in html5/css )
3. Modules ( There will be hundreds of modules. I have not time to write them all, so I need a help of our community )
If I find someone who can help me I will start the work.

chippwalters
>>I could see how you could do something very similar, but in 3D (2 1/2 D) and create interesting forms like this
Yes, it's very interesting, maybe someday I'll write this script, but not now.

I've found great node-based editor! Litegraph.js
It's fast, small and free.

source: https://github.com/jagenjo/litegraph.js/tree/master
demo: http://tamats.com/webglstudio/litegraph/demo/

I rewrote small part of code to make it work with MoI. It still buggy, but it works. :)

And you forget to say that Litegraph is online! ;)

>>And you forget to say that Litegraph is online

Hi Pilou,
I don't understand what you want to say.
You can find a link to demo in my previous post, so you can test an online version of this script.
However I've made about 50 changes in the code to make it work with MoI. Offline mode of course.

Ok in fact we say the same! :)

This is something! As a maya user, I can say for many operations, like procedural modeling etc, nodes are best way to buld things. Surprised it can be done in MoI :)
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Hi Max,

This is very nice. You might also want to check the following open source apps.

https://www.nodebox.net/

https://github.com/pboyer/flood

-sharif

The Flood one seems very apetizing! :)

First real test. It works pretty good.


Hi Sharif,
thank you for the links. I'll find there some good ideas for sure.

Born of a new hit! Bravo!
and bon courage! ;)

French Version! ;)
http://moiscript.weebly.com/elephant.html

You can donwload here for free amazing PDF books about generative nodes creation!
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/tutorials-1


and of course this one if you want make some advanced investigations! ;)

Curiosity!
http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/

chippwalters, very cool work!

And do you have a more detailed description of how to achieve such a result?

So what is the current status of Elephant? Is there still a distribution point?

The Elephant.html link now appears to give a 404 error.

Elephant by Max Smirnov
http://moi3d.com/forum/get_attachment.php?webtag=MOI&hash=493268ef77dcd162d863f6b06cc0c221&filename=nodeeditor.v.0.23.alpha.zip