Hi, I want to render a salt grinder and I am wondering if there is a way to fill up a glass with salt crystals and render it nicely. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks!

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Hi Leo, Searching the forum for salt throws up, inter alia, Classic salt and pepper shaker set HTH Jeremy

Thanks, it seems like that’s exactly what I was looking for, but I don’t have any experience with grasshopper at all. I don’t have the time right now, but it’s great for future reference!

Thanks Jerry! Seems like an easy fix, I’ll try that!

Sure… somehow I thought you are looking for something Like this. For fine grain salt definitely overkill to simulate :slight_smile: [Screenshot_20230513-141240]

Yes, that’s exactly what I was looking for! But outside of my abilities considering the amount of time I have to make this work.

model the salt shaker, and find a bitmap of salt crystals to use as a texture for the interior glass. Google: salt crystals texture - Google Search

[image] I set this up in less than 2 minutes using a texture I found on google images, and setting up a couple of materials (using Vray, but you can get similar or better results in rhino/cycles)

Thanks richard, that seems to work best so far. The shape is a bit complicated, which makes the mapping difficult and the top is exposed. I guess I’ll have to play around in Photoshop a bit afterwards.

Leo Alt, i did something similar some time ago. Like this? (it’s not finished, there is still a lot of noise in the render image). Rendered with Vray: [sali da bagno]

Rendering Salt crystals in a glass

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dk2079 May 13, 2023, 11:49am 2

Maybe something like this?

Collision with the actual crystals would be heavy in the simulation, but you could simply replace the spheres with crystals afterwards.

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