A mess of Fibres and wires

Hoverkraft · April 10, 2015, 5:56am

Hi all,

I am pondering how to create something like this:

A surface which should have some thickness, made up of a lot of tangled, interwoven wires, like a sponge. So far I’ve tried hair particles and the ivy generator but that didn’t work out. Any ideas?

Thanks!

IkariShinji · April 10, 2015, 6:06am

Perhaps this can be useful?

ridix · April 11, 2015, 5:44am

So far I’ve tried hair particles and the ivy generator but that didn’t work out.

Try using volumetric particles; Emit from Volume.

First create a cube, assign new Particle system. Set Emission start at 1.0 and end at 1.0. Set Emit From Volume. Down in Render setting uncheck Emitter, and choose “Line”. In Velocity setting put some number in “Random”.

YAFU · April 11, 2015, 7:10am

The problem is that with emit an object from volume, the objects intersect.

Is it possible to make they are not intersected?

Here the result with less number, more depth in the volume and DOF. Using a single object, so with group of different objects with little variations the result will be more heterogeneous.