Hello,

Is it possible to make a continous (connected) l-system to grow following some surface shape?
I have some geometry and i'd like my l-system to grow on it's surface replicating it's shape.
I saw a simple example of two metaball style merged sphere shape l-system constructs somewhere, but cannot find it anymore.
I'm going through prof.Prusinkiewicz works now so I already have some knowledge on l-system creation.

Peter

I found some answers…The example was here :
http://www.sidefx.com/community/download/extras/userGuide/houdini5.5_tutorial_guide.pdf [sidefx.com]

in “pruned growth” section.
It is not exactly what I meant but can lead to some nice results.
I'll experiment with it and see what it can do, but anyway if you can help me, please do it

Peter

you could try creeping the l-system onto your geometry

hey hey

could u hint at what sorta object u want it to follow to shape of?

:-)

Hey Peter,

Polywire will connect all the different pieces of geometery together but I don't know if this is what you are really looking for.

Cheers,
Nate Nesler