Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted May 13, 2012 Hash Fellow Share Posted May 13, 2012 I saw an article about this very unusual strain of corn that has multi-colored kernals and tried to see if i could make something that hinted at it: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Bizarre! Modelling a whole ear of that would be a little tedious, although I suppose you could use the same group on multiple kernels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuchur Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I saw an article about this very unusual strain of corn that has multi-colored kernals and tried to see if i could make something that hinted at it: Very nice look... somehow it looks like a painting too me... but a very realistic one! Love it! See you *Fuchur* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted May 13, 2012 Author Hash Fellow Share Posted May 13, 2012 A test to see if I could create the semi-random kernel arrangement by squeezing together cloth spheres. The first is with low "friction", the second is with high "friction": CornSqueeze.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fae_alba Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 would you then wrap the cloth kernals around a mesh in the shape of a cob? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted May 13, 2012 Author Hash Fellow Share Posted May 13, 2012 would you then wrap the cloth kernals around a mesh in the shape of a cob? Haven't quite figured the cob thing out yet. Perhaps one might use the dupe wizard to arrange them in a cylindrical form first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I did it brute force (copy paste, offset until I got one column, copy paste offset that , until got 4 columns, use distort, offset, make 1 quarter of cob, copy paste, flip for 4 qtrs). However I didn't get the nice spiral growth pattern and I would probably use sweeper if I were to do it again (create spiral path, duplicate a kernal, copy result, offset, distort, etc) Color variation was obtained by changing the surface color of the instance and % of the color decal of the cob model in the chor. I used the image of the glassgem corn for the decal, but I would also probably change the image so that the coloring would line up a bit better with the kernels on the cob model if I were to do it again. And I would close off the holes in the kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted May 14, 2012 Author Hash Fellow Share Posted May 14, 2012 Here's a test of dropping kernals into cylindrical forms: CornDropA.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 COOL! Hey Rob- I am interested in how you got that 1st image, matcap? Is there really a 2nd form inside the 1st one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted May 14, 2012 Author Hash Fellow Share Posted May 14, 2012 COOL! Hey Rob- I am interested in how you got that 1st image, matcap? Is there really a 2nd form inside the 1st one? The image is a combination (done in an A:M Composite) of these two: The dark one has AO. For some reason I couldn't get either FakeAO or Real AO to get what I wanted so i tried combining two exposures. It's still not what I was aiming for. Then I blurred it by 2 pixels (also in A:M Composite) There is indeed a 2nd form, the white "seed" of the kernel. That was the tricky part to try to reproduce from the original photo. I made it blurry by sweeping the Index of refraction of the outer surface over a multi-pass render. Without that, the unsatisfying result is like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpendleton77 Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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