I’ve been interested in bringing mathematical shapes into Maya. It’s usually a quick job to write some scripts to generate cool shapes in Maya. My latest attempt is to experiment with Inversion Geometry shapes. That turned out to be a two step process. Learn about Inversion Geometry. (It turns out that I never learned it… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
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Tessellation Script
This is a quick Maya MEL script that implements an alternate tessellation scheme for triangulated polygon meshes. What this means is that when you want to subdivide one of the triangular faces o f the object into smaller triangular faces, this script gives you another option.… Continue Reading
Wooden Trains
After playing wooden trains with my nephew at Thanksgiving, I started building a wooden train set in Maya. One of the hardest parts of wooden trains is understanding how they fit together. With most wooden train sets there is a lot of wiggle room where you can force certain tracks to fit where they really… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
Random Artwork
I was playing with some scripts to create random scene geometry, and I decided to write some scripts to add random lights to the scene, too. These are the results of placing random spheres in the middle of a shell of random lights. The coloring of the lights is (surprise, surprise) random, but specified within… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
Helicoid – Catenoid
I was tinkering on a question I grabbed from the AREA forum, and the results looked pretty good. So here they are.… Continue Reading