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Archived post by animatrix2k7

Full Monaco Editor integration with Houdini-aware language intelligence powered by the Language Server Protocol (LSP) for VEX, Python, OpenCL C, and C++/HDK.
VEX: Live attributes from the current geometry and connected inputs, with awareness of attribute class, type, tuple size, arrays, precision, groups, intrinsics, parameters, run-over mode, and input origin. Includes automatic type-prefix correction and context-specific functions discovered via vcc.
OpenCL C: clangd integration with awareness of Houdini #bind declarations, typed kernel arguments, live attributes and groups, SOP/DOP/COP contexts, binding access modes, supported methods, kernel options, language standards, and include paths.
C++/HDK: clangd-powered semantic type inference, member completion, overloads, macros, include resolution, diagnostics, and navigation using the installed HDK headers, compile definitions, and toolchain configuration.
Python: Pyright integration using Houdini’s installed Python libraries and the full hou API, with inferred HOM types and support for parameter expressions, callbacks, menu scripts, kwargs, node, geo, imports, functions, and classes.
Context-aware completion, signature help, hover documentation, diagnostics, go-to-definition, references, and symbols, all without cooking geometry to generate suggestions.

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Archived post by mysterypancake

tried implementing a paper “Estimating Discrete Total Curvature with Per Triangle Normal Variation” by Crane He Chen

it uses the variation of the normals to represent curvature, seems to give cleaner results than the measure node (left)

github.com/MysteryPancake/Houdini-Fun/blob/main/README.md#fast-curvature-from-normals

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Archived post by mysterypancake

tried implementing a paper “Estimating Discrete Total Curvature with Per Triangle Normal Variation” by Crane He Chen

it uses the variation of the normals to represent curvature, seems to give cleaner results than the measure node (left)

github.com/MysteryPancake/Houdini-Fun/blob/main/README.md#fast-curvature-from-normals

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Archived post by profbetis

okay here’s the file! enjoy digging in! it’s a doozy lol

I’d really like to teach/explore this uv position space more. it bridges a strange gap I was missing before where stuff felt too baked into volumes without being able to zoom/pan outside of that window easily. really powerful concept

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Archived post by profbetis

I’m having way too much fun with this thing lol. anyway here is the file. It uses some H22 stuff in there so you gotta be on that version

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Archived post by jim.meston

Updated Anisotropic Blur, added an anisotropy bias parm. By some coincidence if we blur P and uv at the same time we can get sliding topo with auto corrected UV’s. Passing the blurred point uv_temp.y to vertex uv.y gives us seam independent uv correction (in this case). This is just blur not ‘edge sliding’. Happy accident.

Though I’ve been focusing on position blur etc, i popped in some float bias and float bias decay controls which allow for flow advection type stuff directly from the modded attribute blur sop. Float bias accumulated min/avg/max and bias fade allows for accumulation and decay such that when there is strong anisotropy we can very controllably fade the contribution across the length of the blur. Interestingly (to me) while isotropic floor stabilizes some erratic behaviour with vectors like @P etc, it creates a convenient trail diffusion when used with floats. I meant that to happen, honest.

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