December mini-project - make a fungus · CG Python Academy (Free)

December mini-project - make a fungus

I’m working on a film about microorganisms such as fungi and bacteria. The underground portion of a fungus is composed of hyphae which are single strands of connected cells. A large grouping of hyphae is called a mycelium. The first image is of a mycelial mat that I did in Blender with no coding. But just for the fun of it, I tried to reproduce this entirely in code. Full disclosure – I had some help from VS Code Copilot AI. The Blend file is attached along with a screenshot of the results. Cool things left to do with a script: taper the ends of each hyphal strand and create septae (cross walls) to divide the hyphae into distinct cells.

Just run the script to generate the sidebar operator and make some fungus!

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