Dan's ICE Topology Compound Pack 1

In this package, you will found 50+ compounds create with the parametric equations. This pack includes

The Parametric Sandbox used to create all the shapes in this thread

http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=1942

Topology Nodes

1. Bohemian Dome
2. Cone (two variations)
3. Conical Spiral Disk
4. Two version of the cube (adjustable in length, width and height, one with unit system)
5. Cylinder
6. Cylinder Lathe Open
7. Cylinder Open
8. Disk
9. Disk Cosine Wave
10. Disk Helicoid
11. Disk Paraboloid
12. Disk Spiral Wave
13. Eggs (five different formulas into one compound, ready for Easter)
14. Eight Surface
15. Elliptic Paraboloid
16. Folded Strip (two variations)
17. Football
18. Gabriel Horn
19. Grid Cosine Pillow
20. Grid Deep Well
21. Grid Egg Carton
22. Grid Ripple
23. Grid Saddle
24. Hyperbolic Paraboloid
25. Peano Surface
26. Radial Wave Disk
27. Radial Wave Grid
28. Sine Surface
29. Sphere
30. Sphere Ellipsoid
31. Sphere Stereographic
32. Sphere Twisted
33. Super Cone
34. Super Cylinder
35. Super Disk
36. Super Egg
37. Super Shape
38. Super Shape Disk
39. Super Shape Sphere
40. Super Sphere
41. Super Torus
42. Super Torus Helical
43. Super Torus Helical Shell
44. Top
45. Torus (three variations)
46. Torus Braided
47. Torus Helical
48. Torus Helical Shell
49. Torus Spiral
50. Whitney Umbrella
51. Wiggle Wave Disk


Constants

Natural number E
Euler
Golden Ratio
Ln2
Ln10
Ln PI
Log2E
Log10E
One over PI
One over Sqrt (2)
PI
PI over 4
Sqrt (2)
Sqrt (3)
Sqrt (5)
Sqrt (PI)
Two over PI
Two over Sqrt (PI)

Utility Nodes

Sin node with radian output
Cos node with radian output
Tan node with radian output
Build Quad node v1.1
Divisor_test node
Exponent converter (used also to sign function)
Grid Description node
Super Formula node v1.1
Units node (used to convert SI unit in real world units: foot, meter, inch, etc.)
XYZ Grid Data generator (create data in x, y and z)


Download the files. Create a file directory called surface or geometry on your softimage user/application/data/compound directory or workgroup. Decompress the file and move the various compounds to the new directory. Fire up Softimage. Softimage should detect the new compounds.

Create a empty primitive. Create an ICE tree. Choose a primitive compound and connect it to the ICETree. Adjust the parameters to see the effect. Refer to the Topology thread for more information.

Enjoy!

Daniel Brassard

direct si-community download: Dan_ICETopo_Pack1

very cool! thanks for sharing

Fantastic, thanks for sharing! Cosine pillow is my favorite!

Thanks a million Daniel! That's just fantastic.

Thanks Dan!

Just a note: natural number E is also included in Joe's pack so dont be surprised if soft complains about the duplicate

Cheers

Your are welcome, have fun with these.

The community was looking for example of topology and new primitives. I hope these will serve the purpose.

If you have a conflict with one of the node in the pack, just remove it from the pack after you uncompress it.

My favorite nodes are:

* The cubes with real world units (useful for bounding box simulation, reference to judge the scale of other objects in a scene, etc),
*The super sphere, torus and super cylinder just to name a few.

Amazing, thank you a lot for this!

Great Stuff!
thank you very much!

how can i "weld boundary edges" in ICE?
is there already something to do that?

Oh thank you!

I agree on the cube unit, it's my favorite already. Is it a strange question to ask how to make this work 'inverse'? As in, set a box to 10x10x10 metres, then switch the units to inches and instead of getting a smaller box it will get the correct measures for the same sized box. I think that would be equally useful in a lot of cases.

-Jasper

The only compound I have found so far is Christian Gotzingers "CG Weld Points"
A small video & the download address: http://vimeo.com/31921308