Romeo & Juliet: Initial Tests #7-9

I meant to post this earlier but I've been busy both travelling around the US and preparing for SIGGRAPH. Here are some more tests that I've done for Romeo & Juliet. I mostly played around with the idea of a glittery car paint-like texture and experimenting with altering the shape of the pyramids.

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I spent some time experimenting with textures similar to glittery car paint. I worked with aiFlakes to create this effect, but after my initial test I had to update Maya since I didn't seem to have the same settings/options as what I read on the Autodesk site. Test #7 is with the non-updated version of Maya and Test #8 has the updated and improved settings. I also tested out some animation to see how the glitter would look when it moved. I think #8 looks much better probably due to the different settings I had access to when I updated Maya. I also added some motion blur to test #8 to see if it'd enhance the animation slightly.

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For test #9 I decided to try out putting a displacement map onto the simulation just to see what would happen. Depending on the iterations and the height, I got some interesting results. The base texture was a simple shiny dark grey material. I may experiment a bit more with displacement maps just to see if I can get it to do any other interesting shapes/morphs. I did not really animate the displacement settings so I'm unsure how this would affect the animation or if I could get it to morph from the triangles into other shapes or not. I added motion blur to this test as well.

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