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Posted by:pixelero | March 20, 2009

Metaball²

Metaball² – the next level: a blob consisting of smaller blobs:

… Flash Player 10

… smaller blobs are particles in the energy field of the larger blobs, searching for the position where energy=1

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Very clever
By:Tom on March 21, 2009
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fabulous piece of work.
By:frank on March 21, 2009
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indeed beautiful.
By:nicoptere on March 22, 2009
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superb! 😉
By:katopz on March 23, 2009
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By:localToGlobal » Blog Archive » news review -> 13th week of 2009 on March 29, 2009
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Awesome experimet!!!!
Please put some sources for the community 😉
By:Andre Anaya on April 6, 2009
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did u generating 2D texture with glowing circles and after convert this texture to 3d? or u use marching cubes alogrithm? 🙂
By:Alexander on April 9, 2009
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2 Andre Anaya:
There r 2 base techniques.
1) 2D metaballs rendering as 3D (article, overview technique):
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/isometa2d/
2) More impressive technique is based on marching cubes algorithm (MCA). MCA use to build polygonal approximation of isusurface of scalar vector field.
Detailed article locate there:
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/polygonise/
By:Alexander on April 11, 2009
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- Thanks Alexander, those are the two main techniques! Which I’ve been using in my earlier blob-demos as well.
  In case of this, the movement of the smaller blob is like inhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aw/pdf/particles-reprint.pdf , maybe mathematically not as advanced as in that link … I’ll publish the code any time soon, as I get it commented etc …
  By:pixelero on April 11, 2009
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Hi! Your blog would be awesome if it wasn’t for the Snap thingy. It’s really annoying and it has very little use.
Kudos from Lisbon
By:hridaya on April 15, 2009
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‘Snap’ – Yes, I know, it snaps on my nervs every now and then as well. If that’s the worst on my blog, I’m really flattered, thanks!
… you can switch off the snap on its settings, right corner on top.
By:pixelero on April 15, 2009
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By:actionscript microcosmos » Finally - BlobMesh on April 30, 2009
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Да,aleks,побороть лень, действительно иногда очень сложно..
By:Marinkina on May 21, 2009
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Классная статья – спасибо!
By:Cederash on May 23, 2009
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Млин, спамеры просто достали уже этим своим примитивом!
By:Ferinannnd on May 24, 2009
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Где то я это уже видел
By:Avertedd on May 26, 2009
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