Basic Houdini Text Effects: Morph and Inset
Initial efforts to familiarize myself with the text options available in Houdini and then subsequently decide what I might do for the final scene in the BWfOS video involved review of tutorials from Emilia (2016) and Houdini Tutorials (2020). Representative pages from their tutorials are the first graphics (side-by-side) immediately below, and my effort to practice the inset effect follows in the 2 graphics beneath the side-by-side graphics.
Initial efforts to familiarize myself with the text options available in Houdini and then subsequently decide what I might do for the final scene in the BWfOS video involved review of tutorials from Emilia (2016) and Houdini Tutorials (2020). Representative pages from their tutorials are the first graphics (side-by-side) immediately below, and my effort to practice the inset effect follows in the 2 graphics beneath the side-by-side graphics.
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Applied Skills: Inset Effect
Aesthetics: Aiming for Eerie Alien Organic
The final scene in the BWfOS video will show the circuit of Papez as a series of 4 nodes that are presented merely as words [the actual structures have already been shown repeatedly by means of trim path animation of MacLean's fig #2 (1949)]. The preceding inset effect (as above) is not especially interesting, thus further thought was required to generate something more engaging.
The aesthetic for the four words, i.e. the hippocampus, mammillary bodies of the hypothalamus, anterior nucleus of the thalamus, and the cingulate gyrus (Papez 1937) will be more consistent with the rest of the video if they can be given some sort of eerie alien organic quality. Application of volume trails to text defined as scatter extrusion points should impart such an effect. Additional inclusion of the modelled amygdalar structure with volume trails fiber projections will blend in and should complement the effect.
As below, to create text configured origin-scatter-points, use the scatter node to transform a text extrusion into a corresponding series of scatter points which will serve as the origin for the Volume Trails (VT) outflow.
The final scene in the BWfOS video will show the circuit of Papez as a series of 4 nodes that are presented merely as words [the actual structures have already been shown repeatedly by means of trim path animation of MacLean's fig #2 (1949)]. The preceding inset effect (as above) is not especially interesting, thus further thought was required to generate something more engaging.
The aesthetic for the four words, i.e. the hippocampus, mammillary bodies of the hypothalamus, anterior nucleus of the thalamus, and the cingulate gyrus (Papez 1937) will be more consistent with the rest of the video if they can be given some sort of eerie alien organic quality. Application of volume trails to text defined as scatter extrusion points should impart such an effect. Additional inclusion of the modelled amygdalar structure with volume trails fiber projections will blend in and should complement the effect.
As below, to create text configured origin-scatter-points, use the scatter node to transform a text extrusion into a corresponding series of scatter points which will serve as the origin for the Volume Trails (VT) outflow.
Pivot Translate Shear Extrusion: Application to Volume Trails
As below, in order to implement a 'VT path' that will follow the shape of a letter extrusion, first transform the letter into scatter points (in this case specifically the 'H' in 'Hippocampus'), and then impart a shear extrusion path to the letter (as detailed below). Subsequently, animation of the volume trail will follow the shape of the extrusion.
Circuit of Papez as Text-Nodes: First Components
Organic fibrous text will be used in combination w columns of VTs to identify the 4 main structures of the Papez Circuit and also present a circuit of connections between them. The structures will be briefly highlighted in neon blue scatter points to dramatize and facilitate their visibility.
Applied Skills: Integration of Volume Trails with Text Extrusion
Organic fibrous text will be used in combination w columns of VTs to identify the 4 main structures of the Papez Circuit and also present a circuit of connections between them. The structures will be briefly highlighted in neon blue scatter points to dramatize and facilitate their visibility.
Applied Skills: Integration of Volume Trails with Text Extrusion
Bibliography
Emilia P (2020). Houdini 3D text tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTPmvZ4WQlc
Houdini Tutorials (2016). Houdini Font Morph. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E5Dav-cp8g
MacLean P (1949). Psychosomatic disease and the "Visceral Brain". Recent Developments Bearing on the Papez Theory of Emotion. Psychosomatic Medicine. 11(6):338-353.
Papez JW (1937). A Proposed Mechanism of Emotion. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry 38:725-43.
Emilia P (2020). Houdini 3D text tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTPmvZ4WQlc
Houdini Tutorials (2016). Houdini Font Morph. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E5Dav-cp8g
MacLean P (1949). Psychosomatic disease and the "Visceral Brain". Recent Developments Bearing on the Papez Theory of Emotion. Psychosomatic Medicine. 11(6):338-353.
Papez JW (1937). A Proposed Mechanism of Emotion. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry 38:725-43.
