Re: energy fields

["adrian" <adrian.wyer(at)fluid-pictures.com>]

unfortunately spore is no longer ongoing, Richard sadly died last year

i will have a dig around for the addon, but it's way old, with little or no 
control!
i'll see if i can find it.....

a

Adrian Wyer
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter boeykens" <peter_b(at)skynet.be>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: energy fields


> http://www.imagesavant.com/info.html
>
> "SPORE is an ongoing software/aesthetic development project that has grown 
> out of a proprietary ultra-high speed particle renderer which runs on 
> Irix, Linux, and OSX. All the images on page 1 and 2 are stills from 
> animations, and some of these stills are constructed with over 1 billion 
> particles."
>
>
> Not to say that you can't get visually similar results with fractal 
> flames.
>
>
>
>
>
> > The stuff in www.imagesavant.com are what's known as "fractal flames".
> > They're not done with particles of any kind.
> >
> > There's a popular, fairly easy-to-use, opensource software to make
> > them, called Apophysis:
> > http://www.apophysis.org/
> >
> > However, the "common" version is limited to 2D flames (looks good but
> > you can't rotate them), but there's been recently a "3D hack" version
> > which allows for certain fractal flame types to be rotatable and thus
> > 3D.
> >
> > Read more about the 3d hack and resources for it here:
> > http://news.deviantart.com/article/35595/
> >
> > They take a little while to render, though. (Depends how much noise
> > you care to have in your final render. Previewing is fast.)
> >
> > And once you got one, you can do animation and do a batch render with
> > an external renderer called "flam3", also opensource. Here's some
> > tutorials for doing animation:
> > http://electricsheep.org/apophysis/
> > http://www.biomorphica.com/apophysis/animTutorial/
> >
> > To have an idea of what fractal flames look like when animated, you
> > can either install the ElectricSheep screensaver or check out their
> > samples:
> > http://electricsheep.org/index.cgi?&menu=samples
> >
> > Hope it helps, ;)
> >
> >   -- Alan
> >
> >
> > ps: This is my fav art piece made with Apophysis 3d hack so far:
> > http://zueuk.deviantart.com/art/Field-of-Depth-64459898
> >
> >
> > On Nov 22, 2007 2:29 PM, Mathieu Leclaire <mleclair(at)hybride.com> wrote:
> > > Another interesting option... Thank you very much.
> > >
> > > Mathieu Leclaire
> > > R&D Programmer
> > > Hybride Technologies
> > >
> > > "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift and that 
> > > is
> > > why it's called the present"
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ruifeliciano [mailto:ruifeliciano(at)isisds.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 5:13 PM
> > > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > >
> > > Subject: Re: energy fields
> > >
> > > Not a XSI solution but perhaps this can be of any assistance?
> > > http://www.trapcode.com/products_form.html
> > >
> > > Also one of their other products (Particular) can generate this kind of
> > > effects.
> > > http://www.trapcode-people.net/filedetails.php?fileid=56
> > >
> > > This works on the 3D environment on AE and you can export your camera
> > > from XSI into AE if needed.
> > >
> > > Rui Feliciano
> > > www.isisds.com
> > >
> > > Mathieu Leclaire wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking to bounce and brainstorm ideas off you guys...
> > > >
> > > > A client wants us to do energy fields that would look similar to what
> > > > you'll find at this website : http://imagesavant.com
> > > > <http://imagesavant.com/>
> > > >
> > > > Here are a few quicktimes of the ones who I believe are closer to the
> > > > look we are trying to achieve:
> > > >
> > > > http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/spore05.mov
> > > >
> > > > http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/spore28.mov
> > > >
> > > > http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/spore24.mov
> > > >
> > > > http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/spore04.mov
> > > >
> > > > http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/spore11.mov
> > > >
> > > > http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/spore20.mov
> > > >
> > > > http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/spore15.mov
> > > >
> > > > http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/spore23.mov
> > > >
> > > > http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/spore25.mov
> > > >
> > > > http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/spore27.mov
> > > >
> > > > The first few ones are more what we want but you should get the idea.
> > > >
> > > > Of course, the challenge is to have something that's easily
> > > > controllable in 3D with a quick turn around. So of course, we'd like
> > > > to avoid creating simulations with billions of particles. Anyone has
> > > > any brilliant ideas, suggestions, techniques they previously used to
> > > > achieve similar results or simply a link towards information that
> > > > might be useful? I'm trying to gather as many ideas as possible to see
> > > > what options we can come up with.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for sharing.
> > > >
> > > > Mathieu Leclaire
> > > >
> > > > R&D Programmer
> > > >
> > > > Hybride Technologies
> > > >
> > > > "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift and that
> > > > is why it's called the present"
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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