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Kinetic Disintegration

Deborah R. Fowler


Kinetic Disintegration - Seeing Red and Flying Filings

Posted Aug 15  2022
Updated Aug 17  2022

keywords: point wrangle, ramp, pyro source spread, particles, delete, redshift

Created in Houdini 19.0.383 LC. These were previously described on my page here. The versions before disintegration were inspired by the wonderful kinetic sculptures by Anthony Howe.
I thought it would be fun to disintegrate these and used the technique discussed earlier (see here) using the pyro source spread tool.

In Seeing Red, the Redshift strands were replaced by geometry using the Houdini sweep node so that they could be deleted based on attribute.
The title for Flying Filings, came from the rendered motion blur results that reminded me of a children's toy we used to get on road trips with magnets to move around the iron filings - similar seen here.

 

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