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GitHub
The openvdb repository on GitHub hosts development versions of OpenVDB with the latest features and bug fixes, as well as the generally more stable production releases.
Houdini toolkit
This Houdini hip file demonstrates many of the nodes in the toolkit and illustrates fundamental concepts such as OpenVDB tree structures, tiles and voxels, narrow-band level sets and fog volumes. More importantly, it presents recommended workflows for common tasks like particle surfacing, polygon conversion, fracturing, filtering, resampling, extrapolation, etc. The current hip file is tested with Houdini 19.5 and OpenVDB 9.1.
Houdini Examples zip - Aug 4 2023
Maya toolkit
OpenVDB includes a small number of Maya nodes, primarily for conversion of geometry to and from OpenVDB volumes and for visualization of volumes. This archive contains several example scene files that demonstrate how to use the nodes.
Maya Examples zip - Aug 8 2016
Mathematica documentation
The Mathematica notebook provides documentation on the interface between OpenVDB and Mathematica. This interface provides access to various grid containers including level sets, fog volumes, vector grids, integer grids, Boolean grids, and mask grids. Construction, modification, combinations, visualisations, queries, import, export, etc. can be achieved over grids too. Any Mathematica 3D region that's ConstantRegionQ and BoundedRegionQ can be represented as a level set grid, providing a more seamless integration with OpenVDB.
Mathematica documentation notebook zip - Oct 31 2022
Reel 2020
This video shows examples of OpenVDB applications for visual effects in feature movie productions. It was put together by the Adademy Software Foundation and is approved for public sharing.
OpenVDB Reel 2020 mp4 - Dec 11 2020
Sample models
These binary OpenVDB files contain volumetric representations of familiar computer graphics models. They can be viewed with the vdb_view command-line tool included in the distribution or with the Houdini or Maya toolkits. The original polygonal meshes for several of these models are available from NASA 3D Resources and the Stanford 3D Scanning Repository.
armadillo.vdb
Voxel resolution 1276×1519×116
File size 34 MB
buddha.vdb
Voxel resolution 541×1309×541
File size 27 MB
bunny.vdb
Voxel resolution 628×621×489
File size 11 MB
bunny_cloud.vdb
Voxel resolution 577×572×438
File size 74 MB
crawler.vdb
Voxel resolution 2619×511×2149
File size 64 MB
cube.vdb
Voxel resolution 225×225×225
File size 1 MB
dragon.vdb
Voxel resolution 2023×911×1347
File size 45 MB
emu.vdb
Voxel resolution 1481×2609×1843
File size 128 MB
explosion.vdb
Voxel resolution 201×272×230
File size 72 MB
fire.vdb
Voxel resolution 161×364×153
File size 23 MB
icosahedron.vdb
Voxel resolution 143×149×165
File size 1 MB
iss.vdb
Voxel resolution 4561×617×2999
File size 34 MB
smoke1.vdb
Voxel resolution 111×222×112
File size 2 MB
smoke2.vdb
Voxel resolution 191×610×178
File size 28 MB
space.vdb
Voxel resolution 32844×24702×9156
File size 242 MB
sphere.vdb
Voxel resolution 125×125×125
File size 1 MB
torus.vdb
Voxel resolution 299×299×103
File size 4 MB
torus_knot.vdb
Voxel resolution 1090×1119×577
File size 17 MB
utahteapot.vdb
Voxel resolution 981×463×617
File size 12 MB
venusstatue.vdb
Voxel resolution 336×1150×338
File size 20 MB
boat_points.vdb
Voxel resolution 211×63×381
File size 330 MB
bunny_points.vdb
Voxel resolution 310×307×241
File size 307 MB
sphere_points.vdb
Voxel resolution 17×17×17
File size 53 KB
waterfall_points.vdb
Voxel resolution 611×670×637
File size 132 MB