Mycelium Growth in Soil

WAS · June 06, 2015, 11:27:39 PM

Is there possibly a way to mimic Mycelium Growth in soil with Terragen? Anyone have any ideas or examples?

Here is what I mean

WAS · June 07, 2015, 02:14:27 AM

Definitely interested in hearing about your idea.

And never been very good with fractals. Do you know a good free program that could achieve similar? I'm assuming aphophys or one of the evolved forks maybe, but those programs are sure confusing.

bobbystahr · June 07, 2015, 10:50:12 AM

No ideas but my sympathy if the bottom plant is yours....

Hannes · June 07, 2015, 01:10:17 PM

Looking at the second image my first thought (without any idea at all how to achieve that) was trying it with clouds. Somehow... $:-\$

Hannes · June 07, 2015, 04:54:22 PM

Quick and dirty test to try to reproduce at least the second image. A localised cloud layer with small fractals and high warp settings. Some tweakings in the lighting tab...

bobbystahr · June 07, 2015, 05:01:39 PM

Very good Hannes, weather is too nice here to stay indoors much or I'd have tried that. Works as expected...well done.

WAS · June 07, 2015, 06:13:45 PM

Mycelium is a beneficial microorganism that delivers nutrients to the plant and seen in about 90% of nature. Without it, plants are stunted and struggle to uptake nutrients. Look up EM-1 by Dr. Higa and Beneficial Microorganisms. This isn't mould, it's a bacteria.

That plant is in overdrive. No steroids, all probiotic and organic, and beneficial.

Quote from: Hannes on June 07, 2015, 04:54:22 PM
Quick and dirty test to try to reproduce at least the second image. A localised cloud layer with small fractals and high warp settings. Some tweakings in the lighting tab...

That actually doesn't look half bad. I was thinking the cloud layers. Now if only a way to tighten the whisps. One if it's possible to fit in the strata shader with some verticle lean to it's position to show grain-lines in the form.

bobbystahr · June 07, 2015, 07:15:10 PM

WAS didn't know that, thanks for the info....Allen1...thanks for the model....

WAS · June 07, 2015, 07:55:48 PM

Quote from: Allen1 on June 07, 2015, 07:04:58 PM
I tried to model that so i took a few minutes but this is the best i could come up with at the moment.

https://mega.co.nz/#F!2s8k2arR!z40QwfY3JIdTjO5yAiK0GA

So they say they download in there silly little HTML5 download manager, but nothing downloads, or shows up in my Mega account....

Edit: Oh wow, they force download to Desktop without any sort of indication. Big no no.

WAS · June 07, 2015, 09:18:43 PM

Yep got them. Just about to fiddle. Was finishing a test on simple devils peaks setup without octangular looking sides.

I'll post a simple test result for people to see.

Clay · June 08, 2015, 02:27:09 AM

I would maybe model that in Maya or C4D using hair then export that out as polygons, as an object. I did a sort of "nerve system" thing once that was similar, but that file is long gone heh.

WAS · June 08, 2015, 02:32:17 PM

Here is a example image of previously posted model in low quality. Also that hair idea does sound good. Wish I knew more about modeling. Lol I've been trying but man. Pretty good at modelers like the clay style ones.

WAS · June 09, 2015, 04:08:51 PM

Oh hey that looks great! Looks like I can even double it as a mask for tufts coming up from the centralized whites.

WAS · June 10, 2015, 01:52:51 PM

Thanks a lot of your hard work and helping me, so much appreciated. Now i can make cool probiotic wallpapers for my probiotic farmers association friends.