mininal surface explorations

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Comment by Ramazan Beşinci on November 20, 2010 at 2:42pm

hii ivan. I'm trying to make patterns as your white voronoi patterns. can you help me please?

Comment by Mårten Nettelbladt on November 16, 2010 at 1:47am

Very nice examples! How were they rendered? Real-time?

Comment by Arthur Mani on November 12, 2010 at 8:27am

Thanks a lot Daniel for the explaination !
Ivan having tested both Kangaroo and Geometry Gym's mesh relaxation,
could you describe the specificities of both tools ?
cheers!

Comment by Hrvoje Petrovic on November 12, 2010 at 1:00am

Wow!

Comment by Ivan Kiryakov on November 11, 2010 at 12:42pm

thx

exactly, i like the bouncing very much, it also gives you the feeling that the thing bends and twists only to perform the best form for his master :)

hopefully the new release will come soon, i cant't wait to test the self-organisation (distribution) examples

Comment by Daniel Piker on November 11, 2010 at 11:35am

Very funky!

To respond to Arthur's question - it wobbles because the particles have momentum like a real dynamic physical system. Without any damping,the total energy would remain constant and just keep being converted back and forth between elastic potential and kinetic energy indefinitely. As energy is dissipated through friction the oscillations decrease and the system settles into the lowest (local) potential energy configuration.

In the upcoming release of Kangaroo I have added an option to use only the force, without momentum effects (which effectively means the system always behaves as though it is critically damped). Using this the structure just moves directly to the equilibrium position, without all the bouncing around (though I think this animation shows how nice that bouncing can sometimes be!)

Comment by Arthur Mani on November 11, 2010 at 11:04am

Fantastic!! Any chance of posting one of the definition ? :)
Would you know why the mesh is wobbling before settling into its minimal area ?

Comment by Tudor Cosmatu on November 11, 2010 at 8:44am

niiiiice

Comment by michaeldrobnik on November 11, 2010 at 7:33am

cool stuff.