{"id":2129,"date":"2011-10-24T22:58:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T02:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2011-10-24T23:17:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T03:17:27","slug":"efficient-dynamics-in-houdini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/efficient-dynamics-in-houdini","title":{"rendered":"Efficient Dynamics in Houdini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to put together a Tron-like effect in Houdini, and so far it&#8217;s coming along great&#8230;  other than it being REALLY REALLY SLOW.<\/p>\n<p>However, it turn out that there&#8217;s some SOPs in Houdini that I&#8217;m using that aren&#8217;t very efficient, plus instancing of shaders has some issues as well.  On top of this, I&#8217;m not using ODE rigid body dynamics, which are supposed to be pretty fast.  <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/28918545\">This video<\/a> from the opening credits of film <em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/em> demonstrates someone using ODE in Houdini&#8230; with some pretty nice results, like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xUt5OS-agUM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although, with a little more research, it looks like Bullet is the way to go.  Oh&#8230; oh yes, this slightly more powerful.  \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/14691327?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"370\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to put together a Tron-like effect in Houdini, and so far it&#8217;s coming along great&#8230; other than it being REALLY REALLY SLOW. However, it turn out that there&#8217;s some SOPs in Houdini that I&#8217;m using that aren&#8217;t very efficient, plus instancing of shaders has some issues as well. On top of this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[413,49,69,412],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129"}],"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=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}