Procedural Branching Texture

This shader node creates a branching texture.

Can also be used to create radial effects:

May be useful in creating fissures, as asked here:

or the cuttlefish skin here:

proc_branch_2_v03.blend (160.2 KB)

The texture is generated by computing the distance function to this basic tree:

Two cases are differentiated:

  1. the “root” regions A, and
  2. the “non-root” regions B

These regions are all of similar shape, but their size in y-direction decreases exponentially with increasing x-direction.

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Thought you might like to see what I used this texture for! Really like the idea and was super useful

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Glad it could be of use!

Your jellyfish looks nice!