Archived post by matte

@nicholas ralabate afaik it doesn’t make a RAT, so blurring/filtering can be slow

imo image texture access in vex is just slow in general

On a recent project which involved lots of SOPs/VEX texture access I accellerated it substantially by first pre-loading the texture into a 2D volume, then sampling the volume rather than the texture

Archived post by TOADSTORM

it’s hard to find a single sheet that covers every area of math

i found this one that has most of what i’ve seen on whitepapers

there’s also this one for set theory

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Archived post by Lorne

I can’t believe that all my years in Houdini I havent thought to just make a little pop solver to create decent drone camera moves

get a curve force in there, some wind, blend between a few lookat targets that have some drift on them as well

it’s pretty cinematic

disclaimer: this was like a 15min thing and I’m sure this is a mess

you could also set up an @v on the main follow curve and pipe that into the popcurveforce if you wanted regions where the camera speeds up/slows down

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Archived post by chris_gardner

“`import tempfile import glob import os.path tempDir = tempfile.gettempdir()
files = filter(os.path.isfile, glob.glob(tempDir + “/crash.*.hip”)) if files: files.sort(key=lambda x: os.path.getmtime(x)) lastFile = os.path.join(tempDir, files[-1]).replace(‘\\’, ‘/’) hou.hipFile.load(file_name=str(lastFile), suppress_save_prompt=False)“`

load latest crash file

Archived post by Mark

it might not be the most efficient way, but iw as able to do it using l systems and a find shortest path – convert curveu to worldspace, apply parallel transport, and rewrap the wires using one of my weaving setups.

i basically made sure the l system was branching in only 2 directions each generation and just hand selected a group right after the first branch haha

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