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Procedural branches for bronchial / bronchioles anyone?

Procedural branches for bronchial / bronchioles anyone?

2004-03-10       - By Jamie

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MessageCheers for that Graham, I had a good look at Helge's plugin, but there
are no
presets available yet and after a few hours punching in commands and getting
nothing I really expected, I figure it'll take me the best part of my life to
work out if I don't have some sort of a preset I can work from...

I'll have another mooch round and try to find something I can addapt to Helge's
plugin.

Thanks for the advice Graham, much appreciated,

Jamie McDonnell
 -- -- Original Message -- --
 From: Graham D Clark
 To: XSI@(protected)
 Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:43 AM
 Subject: RE: Procedural branches for bronchial / bronchioles anyone?


 I was thinking of making a scop for something similar sometime instead of a
one off script, but I'm UV and instance hell right now. if I was to tackle this
, not being at a level yet to make an Lsys and construct the mesh, I think I'd
just make a split and iterations rule system and use XSI built in OPs at each
step.
 Or I think you could get Helges Lsys script to make some paths for mesh
extrusions.
 Converting a plugin requires understanding the process/concepts they use,
like the links you guys sent me yesterday on UVpelting.
 Perhaps do a search on L-systems. I have a few lsys links in my own resources.
 Take a look at Helges approach, the use of an annotation property as a place
to store rules as presets is a very good idea as well as others he uses in it.
 -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --
 http://www.grahamdclark.com
 

   -- --Original Message-- --
   From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of
Jamie
   Sent: March 8, 2004 8:35 PM
   To: XSI@(protected)
   Subject: Re: Procedural branches for bronchial / bronchioles anyone?


   Hay Graham,

   any chance you could have a quick look at porting this little lightwave
doodaa
   over to a plugin for XSi, or give me a crash course in how to do it myself?

   http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dpont/plugins/TreeCage_Lscript.htm#Manual

   It'd be a usefull plugin to have! And I'd love to know the process of
converting a plugin like this...

   Cheers Graham (or Helge if he can help!)

   Jamie
     -- -- Original Message -- --
     From: Graham D Clark
     To: XSI@(protected)
     Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:21 AM
     Subject: RE: Procedural branches for bronchial / bronchioles anyone?


     the few XSI tools I'm aware of are
     -a very cool twig addon posted a way back, by Vincent Fortin.
     -Helge has an L-system OP look on his site.
     -and I think there are a few based generation or other methods floating
around somewhere that uses standard XSI OPs such as extrude etc with rules for
branching.

     then of course there are lots of external tools/apps for  generating
branch forms and trees etc. I use ho-- ---- -- for this for the animatable
params and rules then put sequential geo or the branch paths back into xsi.

     'The Algorythmic beauty of plants' book will help with the formulas for
lsystems.
     -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --
     http://www.grahamdclark.com
     

       -- --Original Message-- --
       From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On
Behalf Of Jamie
       Sent: March 5, 2004 6:02 PM
       To: XSI@(protected)
       Subject: Procedural branches for bronchial / bronchioles anyone?


       Hi list...

       Has anyone had to tackle the making of meshes using procedural fractals
for branches on trees etc?

       I need to create the vein structure inside a lung, they are made up
very similar to the structure of a tree...

       any ideas? Helge?

       Tar the noooo

       Jamie McDonnell
       http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/procreate
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers for that Graham, I had a good look at
Helge's plugin, but there are no </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>presets available yet and after a few hours
punching in commands and getting nothing I really expected, I figure it'll take
me the best part of my life to work out if I don't have some sort of a preset I
can work from...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'll have another mooch round and try to find
something I can addapt to Helge's plugin.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for the advice Graham, much
appreciated,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jamie McDonnell</FONT></DIV>
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style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT:
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 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV>
 <DIV
 style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
 <A title=mail@(protected) href="mailto:mail@(protected)">Graham D
 Clark</A> </DIV>
 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=XSI@(protected)
 href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV>
 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:43
 AM</DIV>
 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Procedural branches for
 bronchial / bronchioles anyone?</DIV>
 <DIV><BR></DIV>
 <DIV><SPAN class=756292409-09032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
 was thinking of making a scop for something similar sometime instead of a one
 off script, but I'm UV and instance hell right now. if I was to tackle this,
 not being at a&nbsp;level yet to make an Lsys and construct the mesh, I think
 I'd just make a split and iterations rule system and use XSI built in OPs at
 each step.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
 <DIV><SPAN class=756292409-09032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Or
I
 think you could get Helges Lsys script to make some paths for mesh
 extrusions.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
 <DIV><SPAN class=756292409-09032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
 size=2>Converting a plugin requires understanding the process/concepts they
 use, like&nbsp;the links you guys&nbsp;sent me yesterday on&nbsp;UVpelting.
 </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
 <DIV><SPAN class=756292409-09032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
 size=2>Perhaps do a search on L-systems. I have a few lsys links in my own
 resources.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
 <DIV><SPAN class=756292409-09032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2
>Take
 a look at Helges approach, the use of an annotation property&nbsp;as a place
 to store rules as presets is a very good idea as well as others he uses in
 it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
 <DIV>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --</DIV>
 <DIV><A
 href="http://www.grahamdclark.com/">http://www.grahamdclark.com</A></DIV>
 <DIV class=Section1>
 <P class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></P></DIV>
 <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
 style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid;
MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
   <DIV></DIV>
   <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
   face=Tahoma size=2>-- --Original Message-- --<BR><B>From:</B>
   owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] <B>On Behalf Of
   </B>Jamie<BR><B>Sent:</B> March 8, 2004 8:35 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
   XSI@(protected)<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Procedural branches for bronchial
/
   bronchioles anyone?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hay Graham,</FONT></DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>any chance you could have a quick look at
   porting this little lightwave doodaa</FONT></DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>over to a plugin for XSi, or give me a crash
   course in how to do it myself?</FONT></DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
   href="http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dpont/plugins/TreeCage_Lscript.htm#Manual"
>http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dpont/plugins/TreeCage_Lscript.htm#Manual</A></FONT><
/DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It'd be a usefull plugin to have! And I'd love
   to know the process of converting a plugin like this...</FONT></DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers Graham (or Helge if he can
   help!)</FONT></DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jamie</FONT></DIV>
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     <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV>
     <DIV
     style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:
</B>
     <A title=mail@(protected) href="mailto:mail@(protected)">Graham
     D Clark</A> </DIV>
     <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=XSI@(protected)
     href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV>
     <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 08, 2004 9:21
     AM</DIV>
     <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Procedural branches for
     bronchial / bronchioles anyone?</DIV>
     <DIV><BR></DIV>
     <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
     size=2>the&nbsp;few XSI tools I'm aware of are</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
     <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
     size=2>-a very cool twig addon posted a way back, by Vincent
     Fortin.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
     <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
     size=2>-Helge&nbsp;has an L-system&nbsp;OP look on his
     site.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
     <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
     size=2>-and I think&nbsp;there&nbsp;are a few based&nbsp;generation or
     other methods&nbsp;floating around somewhere that uses standard XSI OPs
     such as extrude etc with rules for branching.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
     <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
     size=2></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
     <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
     size=2>then of course there are lots of external tools/apps for&nbsp;
     generating branch forms and trees etc. I use ho-- ---- -- for this for
the
     animatable params and rules then put sequential geo or the branch paths
     back into xsi.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
     <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
     size=2></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
     <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
     size=2><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
     size=2>'The Algorythmic beauty of plants' book will help with the
formulas
     for lsystems.&nbsp;</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
     <DIV>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --</DIV>
     <DIV><A
     href="http://www.grahamdclark.com/">http://www.grahamdclark.com</A></DIV>
     <DIV class=Section1>
     <P class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></P></DIV>
     <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
     style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px
solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
       <DIV></DIV>
       <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
       face=Tahoma size=2>-- --Original Message-- --<BR><B>From:</B>
       owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] <B>On Behalf
Of
       </B>Jamie<BR><B>Sent:</B> March 5, 2004 6:02 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
       XSI@(protected)<BR><B>Subject:</B> Procedural branches for bronchial
/
       bronchioles anyone?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi list...</FONT></DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has anyone had to tackle the making of
       meshes using procedural fractals for branches on trees etc?</FONT></DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I need to create the vein structure inside
       a lung, they are made up very similar to the structure of a
       tree...</FONT></DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>any ideas? Helge?</FONT></DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tar the noooo</FONT></DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jamie McDonnell</FONT></DIV>
       <DIV><FONT face=Arial
       size=2>http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/procreate</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><
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