Melting Goo

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Melting Goo

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By Garyfalia Kotzia

Unit

Innovations

abstract

The innovations project was an opportunity to research and try to create a helpful tool. The original thought was to create a tool in Maya which would have the ability to take any given object and make it look not exactly jelly like but, something more like goo (that is between liquid and solid), which will then melt and spread on the surface underneath it. There were lots of aspects of this project but, because of luck of time, it will be examined from a purely visual point of view, so that the final result will be the modification of the object into a surface, which will look like goo.

The product of this project is a Mel script, which when executed it produces a tool interface that will allow the user to select the object to be transformed into goo and then to be able to select the surface on which it is going to melt.

Many different approaches were explored in order to achieve a satisfactory result; however, the most successful one was by using particles, goals and gravity field.

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