{"id":1986,"date":"2011-08-04T18:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T22:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2011-08-26T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T20:23:50","slug":"mri-not-yet-given-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/mri-not-yet-given-up","title":{"rendered":"MRI: Not Yet Given Up&#8230; Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just about gave up on this MRI cloud thing, when I discovered<a href=\"http:\/\/animatedpixels.posterous.com\/til-instancing-and-houdini-11-and-volume-sops\"> this blog post<\/a> by a fellow Houdini user, where he mentions a Volume from Attrib node that will allow me to alter a volume using point attributes. I think this may be the answer I have been looking for in order to avoid using metaballs. We shall see.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, he mentions a major performance issue in Houdini 11 when dealing with instanced shaders. Specifically, it&#8217;s an issue with the displacement being calculated, even when it&#8217;s not needed. And he posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidefx.com\/index.php?option=com_forum&amp;Itemid=172&amp;page=viewtopic&amp;t=21381\">link to a fix in the SideFX forums.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on top of that&#8230; through his Vimeo profile, I found this slick MRI plugin for Lightwave.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/24216165\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I also have the opportunity of getting my own brain scanned.\u00a0 How creepy is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just about gave up on this MRI cloud thing, when I discovered this blog post by a fellow Houdini user, where he mentions a Volume from Attrib node that will allow me to alter a volume using point attributes. I think this may be the answer I have been looking for in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,11],"tags":[384,69,387],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-animation","category-health","category-software-hardware","tag-cook-off","tag-houdini","tag-mri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}