Math Art

Just released a node Math Art for Nuke 6.3. It creates Mandelbrot and Julia sets. Please let me know if anything breaks.

Here

Julia

Tesellator.

This is a pair of Maya nodes, first of which adaptively tessellates the input mesh, based on input texture.

This is useful in places where, there is displacement in the scene geometry, and there are dynamics to be done.

What happens the dynamics are calculated before the rendering, While the displacement map is applied during rendering. This give in accurate dynamics with respect to rendering.

So we need to displace the geometry before the dynamics take place. This would mean offsetting the vertices depending on the color of the input at that vertex.

Say, the color at vertex 0 is at black, the color at vertex 1 and vertex 2 is at white. Vertex 1 would be displaced the maximum as compared to black. The tessellator would add divisions to the mesh in between vertex 0 and vertex 1, but not between vertex 1 and vertex 2.

The deformer get the same input texture as the tesellator. and it offsets the vertex along the normals at that vertex. The amount of displacement is defined by the luminance of the color.

After this, just a smooth node for garnishing.

Mandelbrot

First implementation of the Mandelbrot set as a Nuke node.

Looking forward to implementing Julia Sets, and a color palette.

Android and aliens, cohesive forces out to take over the world

(12:25:56 PM) Gyanendra: let's see how it goes:-(
(12:26:12 PM) Nihal Kenkre: tu hai to kya tension hai re
(12:26:22 PM) Gyanendra: It's not ashore has.
(12:26:38 PM) Nihal Kenkre: ashore ?
(12:26:47 PM) Gyanendra: problems drains me out.
(12:27:36 PM) Gyanendra: that's spelling mistake from my phone.
(12:27:40 PM) Nihal Kenkre: :P
(12:27:45 PM) Nihal Kenkre: android huh
(12:27:53 PM) Nihal Kenkre: :D
(12:28:22 PM) Gyanendra: my phone sometime does its own things.
(12:28:36 PM) Nihal Kenkre: ooo
(12:28:40 PM) Gyanendra: Whatever!
(12:28:45 PM) Nihal Kenkre: its tracking your every move
(12:28:54 PM) Nihal Kenkre: and reporting back to its droid overlords!
(12:29:19 PM) Gyanendra: Means?
(12:29:55 PM) Nihal Kenkre: maybe your in possession of some alien life form. a tinee tiny decepticon
(12:31:07 PM) Gyanendra: Hey
(12:31:11 PM) Nihal Kenkre: ya
(12:31:14 PM) Nihal Kenkre: whats happenign
(12:31:15 PM) Nihal Kenkre: :D
(12:31:24 PM) Gyanendra: What is going on?
(12:31:34 PM) Nihal Kenkre: ur phone has built in AI
(12:31:48 PM) Gyanendra: Ya
(12:31:54 PM) Nihal Kenkre: and its learning progressively, the more you use it the more it learns
(12:32:01 PM) Nihal Kenkre: and is adapting to the human way of life
(12:32:25 PM) Nihal Kenkre: using your internet connections its communicating with its droid overlords!
(12:32:36 PM) Nihal Kenkre: hidden some where in the galaxy
(12:32:53 PM) Gyanendra: Where are you?
(12:33:24 PM) Gyanendra: @ home or office?
(12:33:30 PM) Nihal Kenkre: i am on a seek and destroy mission of all terrestrial bots
(12:33:33 PM) Nihal Kenkre: office
(12:34:49 PM) Gyanendra: Are those people troubling you?
(12:35:01 PM) Nihal Kenkre: they are benine now ..
(12:35:17 PM) Nihal Kenkre: but as they learn more and more, they will become a pain
(12:35:26 PM) Nihal Kenkre: they will start living their own lives
(12:35:27 PM) Gyanendra: Looks like you are in a fried mood.
(12:35:35 PM) Nihal Kenkre: irrespective of the owner
(12:35:39 PM) Nihal Kenkre: e.g.
(12:35:51 PM) Nihal Kenkre: your phone calling up some one just to have a talk to them
(12:36:03 PM) Nihal Kenkre: opening a facebook account and getting social
(12:36:07 PM) Nihal Kenkre: completely unnnoticed
(12:36:28 PM) Nihal Kenkre: and when their numbers grow
(12:36:30 PM) Nihal Kenkre: we're dead
(12:36:47 PM) Nihal Kenkre: this is a serious problem and has to stopped at the root
(12:36:55 PM) Nihal Kenkre: SWITCH TO iPHONE 4
(12:37:01 PM) Nihal Kenkre: hahahahhahahaha
(12:37:12 PM) Gyanendra: ya
(12:37:42 PM) Gyanendra: I will, if you gift me one. :-)
(12:38:13 PM) Nihal Kenkre: sadly, my funding is for a seek and destroy mission, not for seek and provide mission :(
(12:38:23 PM) Nihal Kenkre: ur phone needs to be destroyed ...
(12:38:34 PM) Nihal Kenkre: i dont know, this might your phonr talking to me on its own
(12:38:40 PM) Nihal Kenkre: without you noticing it
(12:39:22 PM) Gyanendra: Am very much here.
(12:39:30 PM) Nihal Kenkre: dont be surprised if in some days you find a number of android phones lying around your desk
(12:39:32 PM) Nihal Kenkre: your home
(12:39:51 PM) Nihal Kenkre: slowly u might start seeing them everywhere you look
(12:40:13 PM) Nihal Kenkre: then you will know, that ur phone was the first alternate life form on earth
(12:41:19 PM) Gyanendra: what are you reading these days?
(12:42:22 PM) Gyanendra: Looks like you are traveled beyond this universe.
(12:42:33 PM) Nihal Kenkre: no...
(12:42:36 PM) Nihal Kenkre: im very much here
(12:42:47 PM) Nihal Kenkre: but fact is that , if this continues, we might not here anymore!
(12:43:08 PM) Gyanendra: wherw, which time zone?
(12:43:27 PM) Nihal Kenkre: IST ( + 5.30 GMT )
(12:43:28 PM) Nihal Kenkre: :(
(12:43:49 PM) Nihal Kenkre: fine, call me crazy, but some day you will realize, but then it would be too late
(12:43:50 PM) Gyanendra: Are you sure.
(12:44:12 PM) Nihal Kenkre: all i can say is SWTICH TO iPHONE
(12:45:17 PM) Nihal Kenkre: also 2012 is next year!
(12:45:34 PM) Nihal Kenkre: enough time for one final upgrade to android and we're doomed!
(12:45:43 PM) Gyanendra: Are you using iphone.
(12:46:32 PM) Nihal Kenkre: yes, its the only way out!

Github repositories up and running

https://github.com/amadlover/


This has repositories for the nkPass project and the imageloaders which has the DPX loader for Maya.

happy gitting.

DPX loader for Maya

This is a plugin which reads DPX files into maya like any other supported format.
It derives off MPxImageFile class to relieve from the pain of converting DPX to some maya readable format before you get working.

Source code to be available soon.