Houdini Tutorial: Demystifying Sevilla's Parasols - Waffle Structure

Support Us On Patreon: At a recent Houdini meetup, Luc Morroni () came up with quite an interesting tutorial topic: Procedural waffle structures, like the ones used in Sevilla's Metropol Parasol (). Seems easy enough at first I thought - but as always, the devil's in the details. In this case in the cutouts where the parts slot into each other. So enjoy hearing me waffle on (see what I did there?) about creating those types of structures and making them intersect realistically(ish). Download Project File: 00:00 - Intro 00:33 - Basic Geometry 02:22 - Creating The Spars 03:30 - Intersecting The Spars (Cutouts) 07:33 - Coloring The Cutouts 08:33 - Second Set Of Spars 09:31 - Mushroom Shapes 10:32 - Infamous Last Words