Stunning Procedural Nebula Created with Houdini

Adam Swaab created a truly marvelous masterpiece: a procedural nebula, an animated scene that can steal your breath away with its beauty.

The nebula was made in Houdini, an extremely powerful software for such simulations, which has shown its capabilities many times before – on land, in water, and in the sky. 

The project consists of "pure volumes," with no particles involved, rendered in a little under 3 minutes per frame with two 4070 Ti Super GPUs.

Swaab is working on a system to turn a rough arbitrary point cloud into a nebula volume through an algorithmic upressing technique and volumetric rasterization, so expect more from him.

If you are amazed by this work and want to learn from Swaab, visit his LinkedIn page.

Need more? Enjoy these nebulas from other artists, all done with love and attention to detail.

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