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Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by psor » Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:16 pm

Just another amazing program I like to share. ;o))


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Maybe you'll be as amazed as I am. I think it rocks big time! :D ;)



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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by WytRaven » Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:54 pm

Oooooh! Nice! :)
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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by OnoSendai » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:01 pm

Looks like L-systems.
One thing about L-systems, is that I don't think you can actually do a realistic tree with them, because you don't get smooth transitions between branches.
I think some kind of volumetric (voxel) approach, maybe with marching cubes would work for that.

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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by lycium » Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:34 am

i've done both approaches, and voxels actually suck more than L-systems because of the recursive splitting / resolution problem (also, it's not like using voxels magically gives you smooth blending, it's still difficult to do well ;)).


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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by OnoSendai » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:41 am

Well, it may be difficult to do smooth transitions, but at least it's possible. And hey, it's the technique nature uses! (if you consider cells as voxels :) )

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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by neo0. » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:33 pm

Looks pretty neat, but it looks like you need to know how to code, and coding is greek to me. I wish more programs would use nodes to represent complex coding.. Terragen 2 is a good example of this.

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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by hstokholm » Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:56 am

Nice program! Thanks for sharing :)
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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by CTZn » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:31 pm

Nice hstokholm !

Well, one could build curves from L-system I suppose, the point being then to have a curve-based pipe primitive (with radius mapped along U or something more procedural).

I'm burning with that request (curve -> pipe primitive) for a moment in fact, should I add it to the list Ono ?
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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by jotero » Sat Nov 06, 2010 3:37 am

Hello all :)

Who does not want to wait for the new version StructureSynth 1.4, http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/
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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by juan_irender » Sat Nov 06, 2010 4:55 am

Hi Jotero!
Nice to see you.
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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by jotero » Sat Nov 20, 2010 6:39 am

hello all :)

thank you Juan :)

PS: very interesting:

GDesign 2.0 http://www.digitalpoiesis.org/
Grasshopper Rabbit L-System http://morphocode.com/rabbit-l-systems/
StructureSynth 1.0 http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/index.php
StructureSynth 1.5 http://www.jotero.com/temp/StructureSynth_1_5.zip

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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by CTZn » Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:38 pm

Cool twits in the Rabbit page !
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Re: Structure Synth (amazing application)

Post by jotero » Sat Nov 20, 2010 10:06 pm

hello all :)

sorry :oops:
I've fixed the missing files "QtXml4.dll, QtScript4.dll in StructureSynth 1.4 and StructureSynth 1.5

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