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drewmike
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Metaballs
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Nov 15 04:44 UTC 1999 |
Anyone have experience with/know of a good tutorial about sculpting with
metaballs?
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conrad
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response 1 of 9:
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Nov 15 15:03 UTC 1999 |
what are metaballs...?
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drewmike
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response 2 of 9:
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Nov 15 17:12 UTC 1999 |
(I take it that's a no.)
It's a weird way of sculpting objects, by using simple shapes such as spheres,
cubes and cylinders. And when you put them together they sort of fluidly flow
into each other. And you can also shape them further with "negative balls".
It's weird stuff, and not nearly as intuitive as it's billed to be.
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conrad
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response 3 of 9:
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Nov 17 17:30 UTC 1999 |
I think i get the idea... you touch two spheres and pull them apart, you get
some sort of a dumbell...? Anyway, good luck in your search, drewmike...
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raven
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response 4 of 9:
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Nov 18 09:02 UTC 1999 |
Yes sounds very interesting, please post here if you find out more. I'm going
to try out blender soon which is supposed to have a pretty decent interface
for rendering 3d.
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drewmike
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response 5 of 9:
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Nov 19 11:08 UTC 1999 |
Not really, Conrad. If you take two spheres and put them close to each other
(not necessarily close and then apart) they'll deform into sort of a 3D figure
8, not like a barbell. And if you want to put a dent in one of the balls, you
put a "negative sphere" near it. How much of the sphere is affected depends
on the size and placement of the negative sphere.
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raven
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response 6 of 9:
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Nov 22 06:40 UTC 1999 |
Blender has a metaballs option but I haven't tried it yet as the program has
a steep learning curve. It's available for free for Linux and Windoze
machines.
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rtminus1
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response 7 of 9:
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Jan 22 16:24 UTC 2002 |
You should learn the marching cubes algorithm...It helps and is easy to
implement ... Its about polygonizing a scalar field... email me and give me
your email id.(pradeep@cse2.sce.ac.in) Bye for now.
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marv
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response 8 of 9:
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Jan 7 03:08 UTC 2008 |
Simple way to create metaballs is Cinema4d it has a metaball option.
watch it:
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Liquid-Metal-Effect/10482
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marv
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response 9 of 9:
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Jan 7 03:13 UTC 2008 |
my mistake it is right link :
http://new.visualdesigncore.com/tutorials/Cinema4d/Liquid-Metal/
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