A new tool that will make a particle flowing along the maximum gradient on a mesh. If no weights on mesh vertex, the tool will use the height of the vertex, so by default it is a Rain Flow. A step is per face so you don’t need to input a step distance but rather a maximum number of steps.
There will be an option in order to have also the reverse flow (bottom to top)
looks useful for simulation of water flow on shade sails. Is this functionality contained in a plugin?
It will be published in Nautilus plugin.
It is not dedicated to Water flow, many plugins already do this Parakeet, Gismo … and also many discussions
Here a different use of Gradient Flow.
I have a Voronoi pattern that needed to be printed with just one path
Of the idea is to offset it, make a Spanning tree that links the cells
And then bridge the cells
Lets say I put a weight of 100 of the red dot and 0 at all others places. And then I smooth the weights. I could also use geodesic distance or heat flow.
Gradient Flow of the weight gives that
Weight Smoothing Cotan Weight Method
Nautilus 1.3 is out so you can now test the tools. I hope it works on Mac now !
Here a way to make the simulation of rain flow on an object with the idea that the flow will continue a bit below the object but will at the end fall.
The idea is to populate each vertex of the mesh with an angle and to limit the maximum angle. As the tool follow the gradient going from high value to lower, the angle with Z is negated.
On version 1.4 I added some tool that are a bit more generic.
In order to generate a flow the tool must have a Vector for each vertex of the mesh.
Vectors could be generated by
*A vector field
So it gives that
Vectors could be rotated
So it is possible to have multiple directions fields from the same scalar weights
Version 1.5 brings some improvements and bug removal.
Now mesh vertices works well. Tell me if there is a problem.
There is now a component with a better field evaluation
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