  | | | Procedural branches for bronchial / bronchioles anyone? | Procedural branches for bronchial / bronchioles anyone? 2004-03-10 - By Jamie
Back 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 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859 (See http://iso-8859.ora-code.com)-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <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> </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> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for the advice Graham, much appreciated,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jamie McDonnell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <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 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 the links you guys sent me yesterday on 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 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> </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> </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> </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> </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> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers Graham (or Helge if he can help!)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jamie</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT : #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <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 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 has an L-system OP look on his site.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=688244720-06032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </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. </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> </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> </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> </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> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>any ideas? Helge?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tar the noooo</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </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>< /BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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