We‘re very happy to have Houdini magician Simon Fiedler back on the show! Simon will show you how to build and arrange truchet tiles in Houdini! An idea he, oddly enough, got from viral soccer ball making videos! Download Project File
All Posts tagged “pattern”
Interference Patterns On Surfaces
Today we’re revisiting an old setup of ours: Creating intricate interference patterns using circular waves. Time has passed since Mo built the first version of this in 2018 and now, with Houdini 19.5, we got a new node that finally allows us to calculate those […]
Creating Escher Inspired Tiling Tesselations
Jeroen Claus happens “to know a particular kind of software that’s pretty good at applying a set of geometrical rules.” So he sets out to take you on a journey of building Escher inspired tesselations. Download Project Files (.hiplc)
Chainmail Part 1: Creating a Procedural Chainmail Pattern
In this first part of the chainmail tutorial Manuel shows you how to create procedural chainmail instancing real geometry onto a procedural hex pattern created with VOPs. Download Project File
Demystifying Hamburg’s Concert Hall’s Acoustic Panels
Having visited Hamburg recently I was smitten by the city’s concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie. What looks quite minimalistic from afar turns out to be an incredibly detailed building. Of special interes to me were the acoustic panels within the main concert hall, developed by Yasuhisa […]
A Procedural Polka Dot Shader with Analytic Normals
Today we’ll build a procedural shader that produces a polka dot pattern. While this is quite informative, as we learn how to tile the uv space, the interesting part is creating the normal map. We want to use the implicit sphere equation to derive z […]
A Bit Of VEX : Easy Caustics Generator
Last week we’ve been visited by our good friend Fritz “Frizz the Whizz” Kemmler – a most talented developer. And while pondering some other algorithms, we needed a bit of distraction. So we ended up throwing together this one: A very straightforward and not so […]