SERIES A

Eroded Terrain

PRECIPITATION

METHODOLOGY:

HOUDINI: DISINTEGRATION /SOPSOLVER/

USING THE FORM DECAY 2.4, THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE FORM IS SIMULATED THROUGH INFLUENCING IT WITH MICRO-SCALED VOLUMES EATING AWAY AT THE DENSITY OF THE FORM. THESE REPRESENTS PRECIPITATION CAUSING DEFORMATION OF THE SITE TERRAIN AS WELL AS THE 'OSTEOCLASTS' THAT BREAKS DOWN BONE DENSITY

VARIABLE:

DURATION OF DECAY

PROCESS:

/SOLVER/SCATTER/SPHERE/COPYTOPTS/ TINY ROUGH SPHERES ARE LINKED TO TEN SCATTERED POINTS TO SLOWLY EAT AWAY AT DECAY2.4 FORM.

/FOREACHLOOP/BLOCKBEGIN/ ALLOWS FEEDBACK ITERATIONS OF EACH SPHERES EATING AWAY AT THE FORM ONE AT A TIME

/VDBFROMPOLYGONS/VDBCOMBINE/ POLYGONS ARE CONVERTED INTO VDBs TO ACCESS VDBCOMBINE WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE SUBRACTION OF SPHERES FROM THE FORM WITH THE FOREACH LOOP REPETITIVELY.

/CONVERTVDB/SMOOTH/DISINTEGRATION FORM IS CONVERTED BACK TO POLYGON FOR A SMOOTHER SIMULATION.

THE PROCESS OF THE GROWTH OF DECAY THROUGH TIME IS SUCCESSFULLY SIMULATED. THIS HAVE SHOWN SIMILARITIES OF THE BIOTYPE AND SITE DATA WITH THE SLOW AND REPETITIVE PROCESS OF BREAKING DOWN THE OUTER/TOP LAYER OF THE FORM UNTIL IT IS DEFORMED AND LOSE ITS DENSITY.

THIS SERIES HAS RESULTED IN A FLUID-LIKE SIMULATION OF REDUCTION OF MASS AND THE LOSS OF STRUCTURAL QUALITY OF THE MATRIX.

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