implicit surfaces - again

[instinct]

Couldnt help myself adding a bit of water :P

A morning and a midday shot...

[DaForce]

hahahah cool!!!

tease

[instinct]

yeah, but the tease is just an unwanted side-effect...just couldnt stop myself from playing with it :P

[DaForce]

hehehe totally understand

Will continue waiting patiently

[dimo]

He he,

Nice ones Thorsten. Playing with the surfaces is highly addictive, isn't it? Perhaps because you never know what you will get before you press the render button
I know this isn't a feature we need for production work...

Best Regards,

Dieter

[jacksc02]

great tests thorsten!

[dellis]

Dieter,

Did you get around to implimenting the particle flow stuff?

[dimo]

No,

sorry. I am stuck with some bloody bugs. As said earlier there's a workaround. You can use the mesher object to render particles as blobs with it. This works quite well. Taking the radius from the particles would be nice of course.

Best Regards,

Dieter

[dimo]

blog

Hi,

I followed another idea I had with ISO Surfaces and started to write an atmospheric effect. Here' s a first proof of concept:


http://www.dimo3d.info/ajax.mov

I also started a blog about my research here:
www.dimo3d.blogspot.com

Best Regards,

Dieter

[jacksc02]

looks cool dimo, is voxel based?

[dimo]

Hi,

yes it's voxelbased. It uses the poly to levelset (aka Voxelgrid) method I wrote to speed up the ISO Surfaces.
The rest is based on the raymarcher from the good old Renderman Companion. I don't have self-shadows yet, and I hope this will boost the image quality. I am also curious if I can generate and receive gi with the clouds. Would be cool.

Best Regards,

Dieter

[jacksc02]

cool, it would be great for clouds.
Keep me posted

[Da_elf]

i dont see why you shouldnt. i believe that auras smoke used to be able to recieve GI but im not sure. that was voxel based as well

[jacksc02]

auras smoke was able to generate and recieve vray GI

[Da_elf]

could this be another aura in the making? hehehehe