BCM3113 3D MODELLING

ASSIGNMENT

HOUDINI FX
GROUP 6
Section: 01A
Lecturer: Miss Noraniza Binti Samat
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Group Member
Asmira Binti Darman
Sabirah Binti Saad
Foong Meng Wei
Wan Nur Hidayah Ayuni Binti Alias

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TABLE OF CONTENT
CONTENT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. HISTORY

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3. SPECIFICATION/ CRITERIA

4. REQUIREMENTS

5. ADVANTAGES/ POTENTIAL
6. LIMITATION/ CONSTRAINT
7. EXAMPLE OF 3D MODEL
8. REFERENCES

1. Introduction
Houdini software is a 3 dimensional (3D) application software developed by
Side Effects Software of Toronto. Side Effects adapted Houdini from the PRISMS suite
of procedural generation software tools. Its exclusive attention to procedural
generation distinguishes it from other 3D computer graphics software.
Houdini has been used in various feature animation productions, including these:
the Disney feature films Chicken Little and Frozen; Rio, a Blue Sky Studios film; the
feature animation Ant Bully.
Side Effects also publishes a version called Houdini Apprentice, which is free of
charge for non-commercial use.

2. History
3. Specification
Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including these:
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Modeling:

All

standard

geometry

entities

including

Polygons,

(Hierachical) NURBs/Bezier Curves/Patches & Trims, Metaballs

Animation: Key framed animation and raw channel manipulation

(CHOPs), motion capture support

Dynamics: Rigid Body Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Wire

(Curve) Dynamics, Cloth Simulation

Lighting: Node-based shader authoring, lighting and re-lighting in an

IPR viewer

Rendering: Supporting a variety of renderers; besides Mantra: Render

man, mental ray and various 3rd party support

Volumetric: generations/population/manipulation/ rendering of scalarand vector fields

Compositing: Full compositor of floating-point deep (layered) images

Plug-in Development: Development libraries for user extensibility.

4. Requirements
a. Operating System:
Windows:
Windows 7 SP1
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Windows 10 (64-bit)
Mac OS X:
64-bit Intel based Mac with OSX 10.10.2 and higher
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Linux:
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS(64-bit)
Debian 7.0+(64-bit)
RHEL 6+ (64-bit)
Fedors 16+ (64-bit)
CentOS 6+ (64-bit)
Mint 13+ (64-bit)
b. Memory
o

4 GB required

64-bit Operating System required

8 GB or higher and 64-bit strongly recommended for fluid

simulations

c. Processor
o

Recent generation 64-bit AMD or Intel processor (requires SSE or

higher)

64-bit required

Quad core processor or better recommended

Houdini supports MMX and Streaming SIMB (SSE2) where preent

d. Disk Space
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1GB required for installation

5. Advantages/Potential
6. Limitation/Constraint
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7. Example of 3D model/product

Note: Print in colour and email the softcopy through email.

8. References
1. www.sidefx.com
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houdini_(software)