-
meshes are
commonly used. In
certain instances, however,
metaballs are superior. A
metaball's "blobby"
appearance makes them
versatile tools,
often used...
- images, and
special effects or 3-D
modelling with what is
usually called metaballs or
other metasurfaces. The
marching cubes algorithm is
meant to be used...
- will work as
blobs that will
connect with each other.
These are
called metaballs. Some of the 3ds Max
Primitives as they
appear in the
wireframe view of...
-
including Polygons, (Hierarchical) NURBS/Bézier Curves/Patches & Trims,
Metaballs Animation –
Keyframed animation and raw
channel mani****tion (CHOPs),...
- surfaces.
Supported surface types are polygons, curves,
NURBS surfaces,
metaballs, and particles. This is
perhaps the
oldest part of
TouchDesigner and has...
-
Bryce in 2001,
which included several new features, like Tree Lab and
metaballs. Unfortunately,
rendering on
version 5 was much
slower than
version 4...
- spline, polygon, patch, and
NURBS primitives (later
releases also
included Metaballs).
Boolean operations, extrusions, revolves, and bevels, as well as lattice...
- The Find
Dialog displaying metaball outlines around search results...
- resolution.
Particles can be
rendered as
Metaballs in off-line rendering;
isosurfaces computed from particle-
metaballs make
quite convincing liquids. Finally...
-
Computer Graphics. 2000,
Elected to the
National Academy of
Engineering Metaballs See
Wayne Carlson's
history of JPL
Archived 2007-02-20 at the Wayback...