[Cloudman]

Fascinated by the type of surfacing these guys are doing:
http://www.werteloberfell.com/

Any idea of the software used for this? Ideally we would want a plugin for Alias. I think Grasshopper for Rhino does this kind of complex mathematical modelling.

[seghier]

beautiful
maybe tsplines for rhino can do that with extrude than smooth
this quick test with blender :

[seghier]

http://www.dezeen.com/2012/12/14/eggwav ... -for-neff/

[dk2079]

from what I know rhino&grasshopper is a very good choice for precision&details like that.
microstation and generative components can do it too but comes in a heavier/bigger package and harder to learn imho.
houdini would also be a possibility as it has a nurbs module so in theory you could get surface data out of it.


something similar in terms of topology I tested a while ago in rhino:

[feynman]

Any idea of the software used for this? Ideally we would want a plugin for Alias. I think Grasshopper for Rhino does this kind of complex mathematical modelling.

Can't do that in Alias (I'm a heavy user), but Rhino's (I'm a heavy user of that, too) grasshopper is your best friend indeed. Now, if someone would please provide that egg-shell MXM, but simulating cleaner hens ; )

Bollocks - of course you can do that in Alias quite easily - but you obtain a mesh (no NURBS surface of degree 3, 5 or higher). You either use the built-in cheap and cheerful bulge texture (1st image) and try tuning that - or you paint a pattern with dots or squares or whatever in Adobe Illustrator and blur it >1 pixels in Photoshop (2nd image). In both cases, you can simply use the Displacement To Mesh tool. The advantage of going down the Illustrator route is the super quick fine-tuning of the pattern, its elevation, etc. on purely visual terms, rather than using grasshopper to code it (which also works, of course). Of course, the pattern has to be made so it tiles seamlessly, which is not the case here. But you get the idea.

[seghier]

this is new test with blender

rhino to blender :

[seghier]

this test with rhino and paneling tools



paneling tools / grasshopper

[seghier]

i found other solution with grasshopper
the equation to create this waves : z = sin(x)*sin(y)
than i found a definition in grasshopper website ; i made small modification to get regular waves
if you use grasshopper i will send you the file

[seghier]

bender 2.78 Release Candidate have new math fonction mesh and it is easier than other softwares
maybe that help other users who want create shape like that and with opensub in maxwell it is very useful to save memory and time







export lowpoly from blender and than apply opensub