Deborah R. Fowler
Wired
Posted July 23 2022keywords: entagma, point wrangle, matchsize, fuse, remesh, polyfill, vdbfrompolygons, measure (curvature), cross product (in wrangle), attribute promote, solver, trail, connectivity, assemble, sort
Created in Houdini 19.0.383 LC. Thanks to Entagma for their excellent tutorial! Model scan at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 by Texel
The original tutorial is titled Stylized Wire Sculptures Using Point Advection.
Also on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Dv0st2MpO4 and https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZLemWo15rYk
Mantra proved to have sizzling on the specular highlights so I switched over to Redshift for the render.
The second animation used a sort after creating the primitives as entities using the connectivity, assemble, and sort node. A delete node was used to delete primitive less than the current frame.