Archived post by mattiasmalmer

if you want to chamfer your polylines and if you change your mind…

they are a bit fidgety at times. you might want to throw a fuse and a polypath after the linechamfer. but it depends on the use case.

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Archived post by mattiasmalmer

i was just mucking about with a slightly neater way of approximating an object with spheres. the vdbtoSpheres is a little rough. here my version use 1700 spheres and vdbtoSpheres use 3300. and as you can see it does considerably worse even with twice the numbers.

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Archived post by mattiasmalmer

sure thing. This is not the optimal way of doing this. but i really wanted the resulting surface. If you instead of a volume use a grid and then delete all the “used” areas it gets faster and faster for each iteration. then you can easily generate many thousands of circles. but i leave that for you to experiment with 🙂

ok here is the fast one too… 🙂

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[hou-cops] Archived post by mattiasmalmer

so anyways. i got that normalmap to depthmap using DFT to work in Nuke too if anyone is interested:

here is the Nuke implementation. (it is a group gizmo so you do not have to worry about using it as it becomes actual nodes in your scene.)

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