implicit surfaces - again

[DaForce]

wow, so its really memory hungry hey.

Cool well i will test it tomorrow and let you know how i get on.

Thanks

[peterC]

What are you guys? magic people from outer space?... cant wait for that to be public availible...please keep doing that stuff you do..very impressive

[RErender]

A few test images from my playing with this cool plug-in. I've had a lot of fun throwing together materials and seeing what they produced, thanks Dieter!

Condensation?


Meteor?


Sponge


1st Grade Clay Ashtray?


This one surprised me, pretty cool


?


Icecream maybe?

[DaForce]

RErender:
Those are pretty sweet.
Care to let us know what maps you used to get those renders?

[RErender]

RErender:
Those are pretty sweet.
Care to let us know what maps you used to get those renders?

I was afraid someone would ask that

I'm not at home atm but I will see what I can do later.

[DaForce]

heheheh

Thanks

[dimo]

Hi,

@Rerender: Those are really cool. Did you use Dark Tree Textures for them?

I am deep into theory right now and working through various papers. I hope I will get the RAM issue solved.

Best Regards,
Dieter

[RErender]

Yep, they are all based on darktree maps. Except maybe the yellow one which I think was just a regular noise.

I am afraid I was not very scientific in my testing, DaForce. I went back through my files and I guess I just loaded new materials over the old ones whithout saving.

I know the icecream on was
and the meteor was a darktree coral, but the others I am not sure of.

[DaForce]

hhehe thats cool.

Well knowing they are darktree maps gives me something to play with

Thanks

[Daniele_ve]

Hello, is it possible to find somewhere the plugin?

[Da_elf]

its currently a beta plugin

[priad]

Rerender:
Very nice test, implicit surfaces are amazing!

[dimo]

Hi again,

I had very good holidays with my family and even some time to work on the plugin a little more. I was in contact with Ben Houston and Christopher Batty who both worked on implicit surfaces for Frantic Films. They do amazing things with them. For example morphs etc. I started a thread in the frantic forum:

http://support.franticfilms.com/wb/d...read=44&fid=12

They gave me some tips on how to do a better conversion from Polygons to levelset. Now here are the first results.



And an animation: http://www.dimo3d.info/boxes.wmv

You might remember that the last version couldn't handle complex objects. Now look at this guy:

(For those who don't know him. That's the happy buddha from the stanford scanning repository and he has more than a million polygons.) Here's an animation with an animated texture:
http://www.dimo3d.info/animated.mov
There are still some annoying bugs that I have to hunt down before I can send this version around to the testers. So be patient. Perhaps I can get the timing right, and it will be available when 1.5 comes out.

Best regards,

Dieter

[RErender]

Wow, great progress!

[DaForce]

awesome news.

Is it less memory intensive now?