Animated recursive subdivision in Houdini using VEX

In this tutorial we'll learn how to create these sliding Mondrian-esque grid subdivisions in Houdini, using VEX and for loops.
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[@TheMrRaulM]

Awesome! We need more of these!

[@TomCowles]

Amazing tutorial man, look forward to the next one!

[@k.o.8952]

great tutorial, very inspiring, love it!

[@sirkarmart]

Nice tutorial ! Thanks .

[@alex-fecit]

Great stuff! Waiting for the new tutorials

[@massimobaita7178]

Thank You very much, Matt!

[@luisgurico5585]

Thanks for this!! Great explanation.

[@SoulBruteflow]

This was very good. Please do more.

[@user-bh8vi7gm4u]

Thanks for sharing your great Tutorial. Amazing!

[@requa3314]

thank you so much man learnt so much from it !!!

[@jluisroga]

Great stuff!

[@n654jvdja6]

Yeah boi, great tutorial. New to VEX and its cool to learn it in such a practical way.

[@ruslanvynokurov2763]

Dude, you're really great at the simplicity of your explanation. Thanks for this tutorial!

[@Igrbessonov]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@HoudinifxAlfredosanmartin]

I really liked you work, is brilliant and I was trying to understand all you calculation and it is fantastic. I'm learning, so I'm very motivated. thanks!

[@DJMikkilla]

Thank you so much Matt

[@DavidKahlVFX]

looking good :)

[@romansrule3]

Niiice worked perfectly. Just need to find out how to do the colour thing haha

[@richnosworthy2497]

Thanks Matt, great idea and really well explained. Love it

[@MattTaylorMotion]

Thanks Rich, I appreciate it!

[@PopSquadAnimation]

I wanna learn this soooo bad! Its the most difficult 3d software i've ever tried to master! This helped a lot! I have a background in coding which really helped to understand some of this! It seems like its worth learning to add it to my workflow! Thanks for this explanation!

[@mjparent222]

Very impressive. I have learn a lot with your explanation on how you think it at first and problem solve it with the vex codes. Thank you very much.

[@Enginering]

I am waiting for this thanks

[@doodlesnack3082]

thank you very much!!!

[@SadiikZMilk]

This is fantastic! Where's part 2 and 3?

[@printrun5]

super noob coder here. learning from scratch. you just helped me to solve another problem with this totally unrelated tutorial! :-D and i absolutely gonna do what you did, because its awesome! btw those 4 small polygons always work within one big polygon, so you can actually see the square (grid) pattern which only changes in size. is possible to make it even more random - so other small polygons enter other big polygons? so it would look more like a brick wall if you know what i mean.

[@itzjoshh10310]

Houdini novice here. How did you extrude the prims individually, and how did you randomly color them from a selected color palette?

[@TheBradlackey]

Facet Node, then you can separate per polygon.

[@guymicciche144]

Nice, thank you. But how do you make the cube?

[@mariodomingos3dgeneralist832]

Really cool, I'm just learning Houdini now. Would this be possible with VOPs?

[@MattTaylorMotion]

You could absolutely do this with VOPs. VOPs is just a visual wrapper for vex after all. I think for me personally though, I'd find it much more difficult to do this sort of thing in VOPs Vs just typing the code.

[@luisyk6856]

hey good content can you tell me what program do you use is it for windous

[@MyLanista]

I really like the tutorial. Very clear. I can't seem to get past the lerp function though. I don't get the x-y parameter sliders. Could it be Houdini 18?

[@MyLanista]

Never mind, I forgot to create the parameters :P

[@deepthread9804]

how did you shade this

[@TheInfinites]

Super new to Houdini so I'm sorry if this question is too obvious, but to get the whole thing working on a cube or any object, I just have to replace the grid at the start of the whole node network right?

[@TheInfinites]

nvm, I tested it out. yeah, I just had to replace the gird.

[@martians1028]

time to port this whole thing over into blender

[@MattTaylorMotion]

I'd love to see your implementation when you're done!

[@lveronese]

doesn't seem to be working in H17.5, it's looping only the first square and getting smaller at each iteration.

[@MattTaylorMotion]

I'm not sure why that would be happening. I've just opened the file in 17.5 and it's all working correctly. Do you want to send me the .hip and I'll figure out what's wrong with it?

[@lveronese]

@@MattTaylorMotion sure, how would you like me to send the file?

[@andrearusky]

So complicated 😓