RdyHoudini Available (Ready 0.9)

Thanks to RSP's general awesomeness I was able to attend Siggraph Asia recently and while I was there I gave a talk about Reaction Diffusion as part of the SideFX Houdini Hive presentations:

Here's a direct Vimeo link to the recording of my presentation. It is also available on YouTube.

This is an image that I used as one of the title slides in my talk (made in Houdini):

I reckoned that the talk might create some interest in the tools that I present in the video (a prototype Ready-to-Houdini bridge) so I asked the Ready team (pretty much a one-man powerhouse called Tim Hutton) whether we could put out a release of Ready (including the recent changes that I have committed) so that people might be able to run these simulations in Houdini for themselves.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_7TkoIkFhk The tools are presently at a beta level, full disclosure.

Tim's good grace (with help from Andrew Trevorrow) got this minor multi-platform release-miracle performed: a Mac build, one for Windows and a Fedora-based build for Linux. I made some last-minute updates/fixes and workarounds to the HDAs that all made their way into this release too. I'm still expecting things to break of course, but at least it's out there for people to try now!

Here's a link to the release on GitHub:

Ready 0.9

If this interests you then have a play and feel free to send me an email if you need any assistance. I really genuinely want to hear from anyone who gives it a try!

Inside the release you can find:
Scripts/Houdini/README.md - instructions for using the HDAs.
Patterns/Experiments/DanWills - several new patterns that should work well with rdyHoudini.
'rdy' - the commandline ready binary that has new capabilities that make import possible.