Petals

Today’s Nodevember theme was “Flower”, so I decided to try simulating flower petals. The technique is based on the one described in “Boundary-dominant flower blooming simulation”, by Li et al.: http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/home/weiweixu/wwxu.files/boundary.pdf

Final render.

The base petal shape, showing the normalized growth rate of the mesh edges.

A few frames into the simulation, before adding the displacement to make the petals curve along their length.