Building Stairs thread:

I usually post 3D stuff but now it’s summer and I have to do TreeD instead for the house.

I want a spiral staircase to connect the basement to the house. Problem: 1cubic meter of concrete snd rock is in the way: To be able to build the stairs I needed to 3D scan the space:

Been experimenting with Vellum distance constraints using them as muscles and bones.

Driving them with phased sine waves can be quite fun:

#Houdini Here is the constraint network:
The gray and green constraints are rather stiff and maintain structure. the magenta ones pull and push to create motion.

I also experiment with friction so that the "toes" have high friction in their planting cycle and low when lifting.

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Made a simple solver that takes a normal-map and spits out a displacement map.

#Houdini I’m incredibly surprised that it even works seeing how horrendous the code is. But doing something really crappy thousands of times seem to result in a fairly ok result.