/CIS566-hw02-jellyfish

Procedural Jellyfish

  • Chang Liu

  • This is an animated jellyfish created using Houdini nodes.

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Bell and Arms

The bell is created by revolving bent lines around one axis.

The arms are created by instancing an arm with rotation offset created from a plane, where noise function is used to add irregularity to the shape.

Veins

For veins, the approach I used was a little different from the tutorial, although it was still generated by findShortestPath node. The difference was I used another mode that connected all start and end points with almost one path. I used two group nodes to select start points and end points.

Organs

The organ is created using five curved cylinders. It animates with the bell.

Tentacles

First, I selected the points at the bottom of the bell, then use copyToPoint to instantiate lines. The lines are attached to a hair solver.