{"id":2052,"date":"2011-08-26T14:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T18:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2011-08-26T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T20:27:11","slug":"thought-for-food-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/thought-for-food-part-4","title":{"rendered":"Thought for Food &#8211; Last Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zombieWalk_eatingCup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2057 alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"zombieWalk_eatingCup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zombieWalk_eatingCup-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zombieWalk_eatingCup-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zombieWalk_eatingCup.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ok, this is about the final chapter here. I have about 4 hours till I have to hit the final render button.\u00a0 Will I make the deadline for the <a href=\"Houdini Cook-Off\">Houdini Cook-Off<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>My promises to myself include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep the title, &#8220;<em>Food for Thought<\/em>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li>Use a brain.<\/li>\n<li>Have it be cooked and\/or eaten.<\/li>\n<li>Create reusable assets.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure I&#8217;m packed and ready with my desert gear for <a title=\"I don't feel like uploading from the playa.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/burning-man-in-3-more-days\">Burning Man&#8230;\u00a0 <strong>TOMORROW???<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 We still have an RV and trailer to pack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Progress so far&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I started with a model I couldn&#8217;t use, because I didn&#8217;t build it, so how do you easily build a brain in Houdini?<\/li>\n<li>I tried to use <a title=\"How to kill your render time.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/thought-for-food-brain-cloud\">MRI data to build my own brain geometry&#8230; via voxels<\/a>.\u00a0 I got something working&#8230;\u00a0 BUT&#8230;\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t make anything <em>solid<\/em>.\u00a0 It was very ghostly looking so I tried some nodes in Houdini which allowed me to create geometry, but the input data from an MRI scan is pretty dirty. I knew I need to somehow build a solid brain quickly.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m stopping this R&amp;D and I&#8217;m saving the MRI results for when I get my own personal brain scan next month (no joke). My Wacom isn&#8217;t working under windows (I know&#8230; weird), so this was helping me avoid 3DCoat for my sculpting.<\/li>\n<li>Starting over, I used a low-res smooth brain-like shaped object and painted on it.\u00a0 Using some procedural point operations, I created the wrinkle\/sausage (gyrus?) things on the brain.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know Houdini&#8217;s shaders well enough to make <a title=\"RisE!!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dX3Zf4ieJ-g\">realistic looking brain bread baking<\/a>, so my limited time was spent on shaders, and all I&#8217;m really looking for is more BANG for my buck. So, I&#8217;m setting aside my &#8220;baking bread brains&#8221; in coffee shops&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for now!\u00a0 MWAHAHAHA!!!<\/li>\n<li>Serendipity occurred and I ended up <a title=\"2011 Vancouver Zombie Walk - Vimeo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/vancouver-zombie-walk-2011\">filming the Vancouver Zombie Walk<\/a> from last weekend. While I was there, I ran into an A&amp;W and asked for a paper cup.\u00a0 I marked it up with &#8220;X&#8221;s and triangles, thinking, &#8220;<em>Hopefully make-up covered actors won&#8217;t feel too silly&#8230;\u00a0 <a title=\"Being serious was difficult.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zombieWalk_eatingCup.jpg\">eating a paper cup.<\/a><\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zombieFood_gear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2054\" title=\"zombieFood_gear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zombieFood_gear.jpg\" alt=\"the blanket is for half-ass soundproofing\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zombieFood_gear.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zombieFood_gear-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>*note: Blanket hanging on chair in <strong>attempting<\/strong> to get rid of the echos while recording.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, here I am with some undesirables that I&#8217;m trying to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>Using Windows, not Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Using a small USB hard drive as my project drive.<\/p>\n<p>Going to be recording my own audio (zombie acting&#8230; whaaat?)<\/p>\n<p>Doing my composting in Houdini.<\/p>\n<p>I changed the direction last minute (oh those crazy directors&#8230;\u00a0 hehe).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, this is about the final chapter here. I have about 4 hours till I have to hit the final render button.\u00a0 Will I make the deadline for the Houdini Cook-Off? My promises to myself include: Keep the title, &#8220;Food for Thought&#8220;. Use a brain. Have it be cooked and\/or eaten. Create reusable assets. 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