Re: Smoothing Strands Deformation

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:57:48 -0700

Here's a compound that's similar to Renaud Bousquet's compound. I use the average of the current strand position and the points before and after, with a blend control and an iteration control to smooth further. Hope this helps.

-Mathieu

Dominik Kirouac wrote:
Thanks for the help guys,

Mathieu: I tried to resample strands, but it doesn't repair the zigzag deformation that I get in my simulation..

At the moment, I'm able to smooth(average) one position in the strandposition array with it previous and next index, but I'm not able to figure out how to do it for each index in the strandposition array.

How can I create a loop for this smooth to pass through each index of the strandposition array?

On 9/25/2012 11:07 AM, Dominik Kirouac wrote:
Hey all,

Anyone know if a compound exist to smooth strands deformation. I have some weird strand deformation after applying simulation and I want to smooth them in a postprocess icetree.

I'm able to do it for weightmap by getting the average of neighboring points and reapply it to the point, but I'm not able to apply this technic to strands.

Anyone could help me with this?

Thanks,

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		</exposed_ports>
		<connections>
			<cnx from_node="0" from_port="out" to_node="2" to_port="inname"> </cnx>
			<cnx from_node="2" from_port="value" to_node="1" to_port="port1"> </cnx>
		</connections>
		<layout>
			<item type="input" name="In_Name"> </item>
			<item type="input" name="Value" min="0" max="0"> </item>
			<item type="input" name="Reference"> </item>
			<item type="output" name="Execute"> </item>
		</layout>
	</embedded_2>
</xsi_file>

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