Live 2022.09.16

Bismuth hopper crystal [1] patterns in nature

Iridescent Metallics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridescence

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Scene File

2022_09_11_greeble_techniques.hiplc

Modeling with Find Shortest Path

The Labs Lot Subdivision node is quite useful to quickly build detail to geometry.

References

For more inspiration on how this type of workflow could be extended, check out Holden Haotian Zhang's Houdini Greeble Tool

Video On Demand

• 0:00:00 SSS random walk example render
• 0:00:52 SOP modeling begins
• 0:06:00 remesh to grid SOP
• 0:07:00 VOP pattern generation
• 0:09:00 displace mesh using VOP
• 0:14:10 modeling the plinth
• 0:18:20 placing the camera
• 0:19:00 redshift render and lighting
• 0:20:00 redshift shader building
• 0:21:00 SSS random walk settings
• 0:26:00 iterative displacement using for loop
• 0:27:40 fix penetrations using detangle SOP
• 0:47:40 add rectangle area light
• 1:11:25 adding another rect light
• 1:14:00 building shader for the plinth
• 1:18:50 copying rest coordinates initial geo
• 1:19:50 adding shader noise based on rest coords
• 1:28:30 layering materials in the shader
• 1:34:00 adjusting render postFX
• 1:40:30 final render