Procedural Mushroom

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28.04.2022

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Houdini 18.5

Description

Growing a procedural mushroom model along the surface of a torus.

1 Wrapping

Wrapping a grid on a displaced torus

2 Remeshing and repelling

Remeshing the surface and repelling the rims.

3 Scattering points

Scattering points on the boundary curves

4 Shortest paths

Connecting the boundary points using shortest paths along the mesh surface.

5 Transforming to volumes

Turning curves into volumes

6 Rehaping

Reshaping the volumes

7 Final result

The final result with a bit of subsurface scattering.

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Videos

Procedural Mushroom – Houdini Tutorial

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