Project Overview
An abstraction of a nuclear reaction.
The initial fractal shape/orb is made in Houdini using subdivision loops.
To achieve a more organic version, this is converted into hair strands.
Alternate path stands are added for another level of detail and some movement / turbulence simulation is applied.
The object is then instanced to a spiraling point cloud, each time with a random orientation and time offset.
The resulting setup is very cheap for the level of detail.
