Fish Eye

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1. Utopia780

   22 July 2014 at 15:43

   Beautiful image Patrick!
   Do you have some wip thread or something?

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   1. Patrick

      22 July 2014 at 16:52

      thanks, but whats a wip thread

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      1. Utopia780

         22 July 2014 at 16:59

         a Work In Progress post in a forum like Blender Artists. ;)
         I was just curious to see some of the making of this scene.

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         1. Patrick

            22 July 2014 at 17:06

            Sure, I’ve got nothing hide

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         2. Patrick

            22 July 2014 at 18:43

            I’ve set up a ‘wip’ here:
            http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?343877-Fish-Swarm

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            1. Utopia780

               22 July 2014 at 21:35

               Thanks Patrick!
2. winnertakesteve

   22 July 2014 at 18:24

   thats a really nice flocking formation! i’ve always found it tough to get boids to flock in appealing ways. does it look cool in motion too?

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   1. Patrick

      22 July 2014 at 18:48

      Yes looks cool in animation too. But, as you have pointed out a flocking formation is really hard to achieve. In this case I have made use of strong force fields to get the effect.
      I found that to simulate a nice swarm shape with boids is hard because the separation distance is the same in all directions resulting in the fish being to close together in the vertical but too far away in the horizontal.

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