hexagon mesh

Nikolaus Gradwohl2017-02-10T08:49:09+00:00

I've installed the "Extra Objects" addon in blender a while ago and didn't pay it much attention - but yesterday I played with the meshes and immediately fell in love with the honeycomb mesh since I really like hexagonal structures - I extruded it with the "Solidify"-Modifier and twisted it around with the help of an empty and the "Simple Deform"-Modifier.

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hexagonal mesh

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animated displacement texture

Nikolaus Gradwohl2017-02-08T08:14:47+00:00

For this video I animated various displacement texture parameters of a cycles material

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displacement animation

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displacement texture bifurcation

Nikolaus Gradwohl2017-02-02T05:11:07+00:00

I played with animating the texture used in a displacement-node in a cycles render. In this animation I animated the turbulence factor of a Marble texture

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displacement bifurcation

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displace vector curve

Nikolaus Gradwohl2017-01-18T07:18:47+00:00

For this blender experiment I used a simple bands texture in a cycles material as a displacement texture. I used the generated texture coordinates for the sphere and modified it by using a vector curve node. Unfortunately cycles renders some wired circular noisy displacement on the poles of the object when I render it on my GPU - I'm not quite sure why this happens yet.

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vector curve

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glowing plates

Nikolaus Gradwohl2017-01-11T05:49:31+00:00

for this animation I wanted some glowing panels to light up in a random order. So I created a particle set and used the particle index and compared it to the current frame index using a "less than" Node. Based on that comparison I switch between a diffuse- and an emmision-Shader by using the result of the comparison as the mix factor.

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glow plates

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curl noise ring

Nikolaus Gradwohl2016-12-20T06:54:25+00:00

For this animation I made a ico-sphere follow a circular path while emitting particles. The particles have gravity removed from the field weight and use no velocity vector. The only reason they move is a turbulence forcefield with a curl factor of 1

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curl noise ring

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animation nodes knot

Nikolaus Gradwohl2016-12-07T07:32:36+00:00

I haven't used the animation nodes addon in a while - so I dug it up and created a new animation with it. It took me a while to get it running on my box due to python installation absurdities but I finally got an 1.6 up and running in my blender 2.78 installation. For this animation I used an empty list of vectors and filled it with random vectors generated by a vector-wiggle-node. I then used these vectors to create curves. Since I wanted to create a knot I used a second loop that creates several of these splines and adds them into a spline list. This spline-list is then added to a new object and rendered.

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animation nodes knot

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flow field fluid

Nikolaus Gradwohl2016-12-05T04:50:27+00:00

For this animation I created a particle simulation with fluid particles emitted from an icosphere. The particles are emitted along the y-axis and hit a forcefield, with the flow parameter set to 0.1. I used the cubesurfer addon by pytoevil to create a mesh from the particles.

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flow fluid

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forcefield flow explode

Nikolaus Gradwohl2016-12-01T04:19:50+00:00

I used the blender explode modifier to move the vertices of an icosphere in a turbulence forcefield in blender. The particles that move the vertices are form the same icosphere that acts as the emitter of the particles. If you do that make sure the particle system is the first modifier in the stack and that "use modifier stack" in the particle settings is NOT ticked. Otherwise this leads to pretty wired behaviour and probably a blender crash.

The forcefield has an increased flow parameter as with all my flow experiments.

To make the shards look like 3D objects instead of thin paperlike triangles I used the solidify modifier to give them a little bit of depth.

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flow explode

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forcefield flow vortex

Nikolaus Gradwohl2016-11-29T05:45:35+00:00

For this animation I combined a vortex forcefield and a turbulence force field. As with all my latest particle experiments I increased the flow parameter of the turbulence forcefield. The particles are emitted by the faces of an icosphere.

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vortex flow field

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