We're toying with the idea of rendering not only rotting tomatoes, but other rotting fruit as well. Below are some time-lapse videos of other fruits/vegetables so we can compare and contrast the length and severity of decay.
Time lapse of various rotting fruits over 74 days (1 picture every 40 minutes, played back at 30 fps).
Mental Note! Do not look at this blog before eating. I literally just made myself a snack and was just killing time reading blogs while the cookies were finishing ... and now I totally lost my appietiate! Neat examples though....
The purpose of our project is to create a program that can take an input mesh of a tomato and accurately simulate the effects of natural decay based on certain user specifications. We decided to choose a tomato as our food of choice due to its relative simplicity of form and its fascinating decay behavior.
Although much work has been done in the past in relation to food, most of this work has focused on created aesthetically pleasing or appetizing food. Very little research has been done on the simulation of food decay.
This project will be delivered in the form of a Maya plug-in, with the user able to input a polygon mesh and specifications such as color.
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Mental Note! Do not look at this blog before eating. I literally just made myself a snack and was just killing time reading blogs while the cookies were finishing ... and now I totally lost my appietiate! Neat examples though....
Did you guys start the model of the tomato yet?
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