Can anyone do anything with this?

[moltarx]

i was reading about bezier curves a little while back, and came across my old notes...
so, i made this avs
its a 3 control point bezier curve, anyone have any uses for it?

[Raz]

how about a nice tentacles effect

[moltarx]

yeah, i like that a lot
very cool effect raz ^_^

ive wondered for quite a while how UnConeD made the tentacle Superscope, maby it would be possible for me to make one like it now
although, i doubt i would be able to do it in one ssc

[Raz]

Originally in UnConeD's comment for the original preset
Basically, it animates a skeleton of a star-shape and then creates a polygon mesh of conical tubes around that.

The rubber effect is actually very simple... each spike is made out of several joints which are rotated with a delay that increases with the distance to the center. When the star accelerates, the ends start to lag behind and they swirl around.
The lighting consists of two omni-directional lights that move around.
The actual rendering is done in software too of course: the shape is built out of 1440 gouraud shaded, z-buffered triangles.

my effect sucks balls because theres no middle bit and theres no light and the 3d dosen't exactly look 3d but you can take that and work on it and give me some credit if you release it

[moltarx]

yeah, will do
hopefully i can come up with something in a reasonable amount of time >.< hehe

[NemoOrange]

crap, if I knew anything with real math, this would be sweet to have like lines following one another, kinda like moving particles . .. only with lines. Idunno, keep fiddlin' with it.

[moltarx]

that would be pretty damn neato have some sort of snake like preset.... hrmm... maby ill work on that for a bit