Anyone have experience with/know of a good tutorial about sculpting with
metaballs?

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what are metaballs...?

(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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Simple way to create metaballs is Cinema4d it has a metaball option. watch it: http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Liquid-Metal-Effect/10482

my mistake it is right link : http://new.visualdesigncore.com/tutorials/Cinema4d/Liquid-Metal/

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