K Means Clustering

[iamVFX]

What use is this for computer graphics? Specifically Softimage users?

I'm not deliver a product I have fun of messing with ice and sharing stuff with the hope that someone can find it useful.

Because I know that I can get bored and do something else soon...

[Mathaeus]

What use is this for computer graphics? Specifically Softimage users? Some kind of organic procedural modelling, shattering, noise?
Or something else?

Whatever you do with "cell" pattern. Let's say, well known tutorial about creating stones in Max. Basically, sphere is "flattened" by cells. Well, for something realistic, procedural pattern is just a start...
Some real challenge would be a crumpled paper....

[iamVFX]

Transferring cluster ids to disconnected island polygons

[rimg=500]http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/2598/0d727d412162497faefb6bf.png[/rimg]

[SamHowell]

What use is this for computer graphics? Specifically Softimage users? Some kind of organic procedural modelling, shattering, noise?
Or something else?

Whatever you do with "cell" pattern. Let's say, well known tutorial about creating stones in Max. Basically, sphere is "flattened" by cells. Well, for something realistic, procedural pattern is just a start...
Some real challenge would be a crumpled paper....

Cool. I look forward to seeing what turns up on this thread.

[iamVFX]

[rimg=800]http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/7640/83e078322acd4176b11fc08.png[/rimg]

[Bullit]

Nice. Is there a way to go from object to polygons islands to independent objects and vice versa based on distance between them?

[iamVFX]

Can you rephrase the question please?

[Bullit]

Ok. Thinking about it again it is more the case of turning several objects into a unique object conforming to a reference form.

[iamVFX]

K Means Clustering compound provides unique island indices by which you can filter and move points as if they were a separate object, if you mean it

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[Bullit]

But unique objects are necessary for export for other packages i think.

[gustavoeb]

Looks very intersting for stone walls, or stone giant creatures and stuff...
good job

[Ahmidou]

@bullit: Then script it, polygon island are easy to isolate via the SDK! And by the way, you can't create new objects with ICE

[Falam]

K Means Clustering compound provides unique island indices by which you can filter and move points as if they were a separate object, if you mean it

[rimg=250]http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9571/30fb5cfd29454a4388e3ac0.png[/rimg]

Beep, Beep, back up for a minute This compound can take a solid object, and break it up as though it was modeled separately, is that what I read correctly ?

[iamVFX]

Beep, Beep, back up for a minute This compound can take a solid object, and break it up as though it was modeled separately, is that what I read correctly ?

Not exactly... It breaks up geometry on islands, as if you break object with some sort of shatter tool but within of ice. And by breaks up I mean just gives the unique indices to random polygon clusters (see the screenshot from the first post).

If you want to break up the geometry by its existing polygon islands, see Guillaume's Polygon Islands Transformation using ICE, it's pretty effin awesome tool for all sorts of procedural animations.

Looks very intersting for stone walls, or stone giant creatures and stuff...

With such power we can make Flintstones movie!

But really not just for stones... The only limit is your imagination.

[rimg=650]http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/9987/b120de02b3c841afb3d6f43.png[/rimg]

[Rork]

very cool!

keep them coming, this kind of stuff should be shown out of the forums more often.

we're not just a particle app people!!

rob

[iamVFX]

Compound is updated, now you can feed custom array of center points to it