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You mean these baseballs?
http://www.amazon.de/Strike-Baseballs/dp/B0026IZ6YE

Hi Pete,

...this kind of modification sounds promising 

Kind regards
Siri


...maybe a third member for the band will help you out - good idea

Last edited by Siri (February 8, 2010, 5:34 pm)

Cool pice here!

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And Pete: I own this cd and all the others roch n´ roll style ones. (Look a the the amazon site - all the cds belong to the same sound).
I like the pop songs in their "new" clothes - and the artists are all German - but I didn´t wonder about that they may be more famous in the northern "Rock´n Roll area" - since my feeling is, that there are more musicians playing RR than in Germany, where only "Popstars" seem to be worthy.
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The Hollies. Do you like them?

I have never actively listened to the Hollies, but then again, there are quite a few melodies that I recognize from as many years back as I can remember, that turn out to be original Hollies' hit songs. I'f I'd ever see them live, I'd probably sell my sole to them ...

I like the pop songs in their "new" clothes

There are some people in Finland who actually work this a kind of upside down. Making contemporary rock pieces (among other things) into old jazzy dance music... And also they pull it off so well, that if you did not know the original, you would be mistaken.

Here in the forum there's a post about a hairy script that can be applied as a layered texture, so to have different sizes hair. Do you remember?

At least I remember a script that was called "Hair Styles" or something like that. I think I have it somewhere, but I don't remember how it worked. I have a feeling that it was not that different from "Hairy". I wonder if that's the one?

Anyway... currently the thing controls length, propability and stifness of each hair. I'm planning to add a way to effect the direction where each hair is growing (or has been combed to) so that they don't just stick out of the surface and have the gravity bend them.

Expressing direction vectors as a coloured texture map may turn out to be "interesting" to say the least... But let's see, animation and parametrized textures are not yet covered either.

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Oh .. about this...

...that comes with the Aoi package

Notice that Hairy is not in main AoI package. Is a script that has to be downloaded.

Well -- to me, what ever comes through the SPManager also belongs to "the package". Maybe not the exactly correct way of expressing it, I admit. Apologies for any confusion.
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Last edited by peteihis (February 9, 2010, 5:51 pm)

I downloaded it. This may turn out to be helpful   -- And now I have an accout on the German forum too.

Okkay: A third member!



The third member revealed a flaw in the "physics" of this script: The strength of gravity effect depends on the number of segemts that each hair is constructed of... Need to figure that out.

Now there is a way to express intial growing direction (on the new ball and the green haired one) The new one also introduces a method to have the effect of the stifness and growing direction to disappear at a user-set distance from the root.

I also did some more background research on using per-vertex parameters and distributing the hair more evenly without the need to subdivide the master mesh very badly, but those I haven't tested yet.

Hey, how much time it takes to render this scene?

In principle it would take roughly as much time as the original "Hairy". This one tooke some 19 minutes with AntiAliasing was 8/32. With default antialising it took a bit less than 5 minutes. -- Not very animation friendly and the rendering is also filling the memory quite a bit.

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What about ripples?

I have given it a though but I haven't got a very solid idea aboud waved/rippled/curly hair. The waviness of the Hairy is still there, but in these examples I have set it to zero ... in practice that only looks like "uncombed" rather that "wavy", because it is totally random. To make waves you'd need a more regular pattern.

But as there is no collision detection, very long hairs might be a bit of a problem anyway.

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