Beauty Approximations

Following is based on a true story but with construed example data and production details to not stir the feelings of my judicial overlords.  This is a Houdini tutorial, topic being "Tree fracturing for games". The scenario is your job is making tools to make artistic people's life easier. One day you're given a mesh, it consists of a cluster of polygons hovering in space, no recollection of each other. And yet, you clearly see it holds a structure- the branches belongs to the trunk, the leafs belong to the branches. It's almost trivial. So why is it so hard to tell them to just clumpify? Is that a node?  before and after There's piles of books about vectors and the compilable struct products and who am I to add to that? With time I've also come to believe process is an underrated so I thought I take a stab at capturing that.  1. Preparation Clean your desk. Throw all screens out but one. Feed your fish. Buy furniture from Bauhaus. Enter boredom.  Name you

  Sketch for Halloween costume. Next phase, papier mache.

After 10 years break I've returned to runtime motion graphics. This time through the web based app cables.gl. This first piece is meant to be a solid background thing.  http://bhenriksson.se/cables/linesTowardsCamera/index.html

The source position on the skeleton is now available as a point attribute. Also added option to remove segments that has a point as an output allowing only segment to segment curves as I suspect this will be useful. 

Cleaned up the output to be contained inside a boundary. 

Now adding attributes for what primitive spawned the medial axis. Next up to add single points. Edit: added single points (see second pic).