A while back we had a look at a LarmorVoronoi plugin for Maya, a project created by Pier Paolo Ciarravano. LarmorVoronoi was a release of the standard Larmor Physx Voronoi shatter API as a plugin for Autodesk Maya. Using Larmor-Physx Voronoi Shatter, the plugin offers a Voronoi shatter of non-convex closed triangle meshes of polygonal surfaces in Maya.
LarmorVoronoi underwent some changes recently, most notably adding Mac OS X and Linux Versions for Maya 2012,13, and 2014. There has also been an update to the interface, which streamline the plugin and makes it much more simple to use.
LarmorVoronoi Plugin for Maya
LarmorVoronoi
- implements a Voronoi shatter of non-convex closed triangle meshes (Maya polygon surfaces) using C++ and CGAL
- shatter uses the Voronoi brute force algorithm implemented in multithreading
- cut faces can be rebuilt using the Constrained Delaunay triangulation
- triangle meshes can contain multiple holes and cavities with nested objects
- algorithm can separate the disjointed surfaces
- can calculate the mesh’s volume and the inertia tensor (relative to the origin) using the volume 3D Triangulation
The Larmor-Physx uses a brute force algorithm that is implemented in multithreading and provides a Voronoi shatter of meshes using the C++ and CGAL libraries. The cut faces are rebuilt using the constrained Delaunay triangulation method, and triangle meshes can contain multiple holes and cavities along with nested objects. The Larmor algorithm can also separate the disjointed surfaces, and calculate mesh volume and the inertia tensor using the volume’s 3D triangulation.
Availability
The Larmor-Physx project is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License and it is part of the Larmor-Physx Voronoi Shatter API. You can find the LarmorVoronoi plugin is hosted here, with more information for the Maya version of the Larmor Voronoi plugin which can be found here. The Larmor-Physx API can also be found here for more information and a download of the code.
