K Means Clustering

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K-Means ClusteringAuthor: Constantine Tarasenkov
Partitions a polygon mesh with the k-means method.

In the thread linked below, Constantine shows some applications of that method.

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K Means Clustering

Post by iamVFX » 21 May 2012, 09:40

Well, sort of k-means (: The truth must be told: I don't know math much so I made it myself. No repeat nodes, just pure awesomeness of "build array from set" and "find in array" nodes.

1,000,000 points in one second

[rimg=1000]http://xsisupport.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/no1bhm.png[/rimg]

Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10965660/ice_stuff/k-means.zip
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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by iamVFX » 21 May 2012, 10:28

Origami

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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by iamVFX » 21 May 2012, 12:26

You can disconnect polygon islands by k-means also (Disconnect Islands compound is attached below)

[rimg=1000]http://screensnapr.com/e/PPZH78.png[/rimg]

Compound is allow you to switch to any context

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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by Tekano » 21 May 2012, 13:09

who's a clever lad eh!? so basically you made this?

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awesome stuff. wouldn't know where to begin. thanks very much for posting, will have a look to see if I can understand the ICE tree flow later , thanks!
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Post by Hirazi Blue » 21 May 2012, 13:52

Nicely done, obviously.
But for the even more mathematically challenged like me,
could you perhaps say something more about the specific situations
where you would use this?
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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by iamVFX » 21 May 2012, 15:56

Tekano wrote:who's a clever lad eh!? so basically you made this?

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awesome stuff. wouldn't know where to begin. thanks very much for posting, will have a look to see if I can understand the ICE tree flow later , thanks!
Yes, you can! Everyone can, I continue my K.I.S.S. workflow. And the most funniest part - that formula that you showed me - I don't understand it and I'm not used it. All stuff inside of compound is working on arrays sorting. And it works as if it was that formula! How can this be even possible?!
Hirazi Blue wrote:Nicely done, obviously.
But for the even more mathematically challenged like me,
could you perhaps say something more about the specific situations
where you would use this?
I don't know. But what I know for sure is that it was implemented in Houdini first, and I was thinking on that moment "I can do this in xsi too". He used for each (we call it repeat) node I guess (from description: "as the iterations go along"), I made it without any loops.

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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by SamHowell » 21 May 2012, 17:27

Nope.

I still have no idea what this is for.

I would like to know though.

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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by Tekano » 21 May 2012, 17:41

SamHowell wrote:Nope.

I still have no idea what this is for.

I would like to know though.

Hi Sam, am fairly certain that this is related to breaking up objects into pieces where each piece is a voronoi cell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_cell - this you must have heard of / seen already :)
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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by iamVFX » 21 May 2012, 18:03

SamHowell wrote:Nope.

I still have no idea what this is for.

I would like to know though.
lol, guys

it's about the question... why we want to get an answer, if we don't need it :D

i mean what that sequence of numbers means... they're placed together for some reason, right? why you can find so many people who remembers them? :D

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Post by SamHowell » 21 May 2012, 18:55

OK thanks for the help guys. :) I think I see what is being done here and I now know (sort of) what a Veroni Cell is.

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What use is this for computer graphics? Specifically Softimage users? Some kind of organic procedural modelling, shattering, noise?
Or something else?

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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by iamVFX » 21 May 2012, 19:15

SamHowell wrote:What use is this for computer graphics? Specifically Softimage users?
I'm not deliver a product :D I have fun of messing with ice and sharing stuff with the hope that someone can find it useful.

Because I know that I can get bored and do something else soon...

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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by Mathaeus » 21 May 2012, 20:40

SamHowell wrote:
What use is this for computer graphics? Specifically Softimage users? Some kind of organic procedural modelling, shattering, noise?
Or something else?
Whatever you do with "cell" pattern. Let's say, well known tutorial about creating stones in Max. Basically, sphere is "flattened" by cells. Well, for something realistic, procedural pattern is just a start...
Some real challenge would be a crumpled paper.... :)

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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by iamVFX » 22 May 2012, 14:56

Transferring cluster ids to disconnected island polygons

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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by SamHowell » 23 May 2012, 13:19

Mathaeus wrote:
SamHowell wrote:
What use is this for computer graphics? Specifically Softimage users? Some kind of organic procedural modelling, shattering, noise?
Or something else?
Whatever you do with "cell" pattern. Let's say, well known tutorial about creating stones in Max. Basically, sphere is "flattened" by cells. Well, for something realistic, procedural pattern is just a start...
Some real challenge would be a crumpled paper.... :)
Cool. I look forward to seeing what turns up on this thread.

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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by iamVFX » 13 Oct 2012, 23:21

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Re: K Means Clustering

Post by Bullit » 14 Oct 2012, 09:47

Nice. Is there a way to go from object to polygons islands to independent objects and vice versa based on distance between them?

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