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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

(web version)

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