Blue Visual Blog

Experimenting with a tool I made in houdini that walks along edges and makes a path that doesn't intersect with other paths. I plan on taking this project a bit further in terms of choreography and camera-work, but this was easy to setup and get off the ground so I could see something. Music: Supertask - On

Messing with Gryoids. Neat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroid

Full gif here: https://imgur.com/TlfrsTd

Learning FLIP simulations in houdini. Colors are actually done post-sim using the birth-time as an attribute and making that a UV coordinate to look up a painted color spectrum to get realistic paint colors. Everything else was just for fun to give it a place to live in. Music: Boy Song by Hypersleep

Some large-scale universe structures represented by particles featuring distance and relativistic velocity redshift. Generated and rendered in Houdini, post-processed in After Effects. Music: Lifeblood by Grandyzer

A concept I've been thinking about for a few weeks but hadn't tried it until tonight. It's an idea where something fully fleshed out starts as a minimally represented as possible and "loads" in with more and more detail in a sort of layered and sweeping or growing motion. This is the Houdini test squab.

Wrote my own N-Body Solver in VEX today. Houdini of course. This picture doesn't really do it justice but it's pretty cool.

Recursive dicing and extrusion. Houdini

Animation of the data visualization tool I'm working on in Houdini

Did some data visualization in Houdini. Nothing crazy here but it was a fun learning experience and I plan to take it further.

Today's Houdini fun. Totally was not trying for this but it looked like a roll of paper and I thought it was cool.

Today I recreated an old classic of mine in Houdini: my Pyramid Fractal. In my original creations, I created it manually in 3DS Max where I had to work in a strange non-procedural fashion, but eventually was able to make what I wanted. In Houdini however, I was able to actually create the geometry through a feedback loop, where I can easily specify how many iterations to run through.

First render with Redshift! It's not as fun as Octane, but I am impressed. Much more room for control, optimization, and DCC integration. I might be switching from Octane to this during my transition to Houdini. Mantra is nice but CPU rendering is so annoying, I love my GPUs!!

Branching Network in Houdini via "connect adjacent pieces" SOP and then the magical "find shortest path" SOP, added spheres at the points and then processed as a VDB for smoothing and erosion, and converted back to polygons.

Learning about custom materials and procudural textures today in Houdini.

Today with Houdini I finished a VOP that orthagonally slides points to a destination one axis at a time, making for a very linear and mechanical motion. I generated a cubic matrix of starting points and then used a transformed copy as the destination points, making a self-reassembling cube structure. Will be following with a gif later.

Today's learning with Houdini. I created my own triangular grid generating network and learned how to offset instances with procedural noise!