Smoothed Hull around random shapes

digitalmartyn

Has anyone seen examples or references for creating a smoothed hull around randomly placed shapes?

Essentially a metaball algorithm

thanks in advance.

jeremydouglass

@digitalmartyn -- How are the shapes defined? Boxes / voxels? A collection of vertices and edges?

The nature of your shape data is going to affect how you discover / define the bounds that the metaball must enclose. For example, you could define a sphere whose radius is the corner radius of each box, then use the collection of spheres to define the metaball.

Lots of metaball algorithm discussion recently:

https://forum.processing.org/two/search?Search=metaball