chore(data-exporter): add Houdini practice days 224, 255

Author: leviathanbadger

data-exporter/houdini-daily-practice/0196-mardini-2025-pergola.yaml

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ description: Entry into the Mardini 2025 challenge for March 4
 date: 2025-03-04
 previous: 195
 next: 197
+nextInSequence: 224
 thumbnails:
   - /assets/images/houdini-daily-practice/196/thumbnail-0.png
   - /assets/images/houdini-daily-practice/196/thumbnail-1.png

data-exporter/houdini-daily-practice/0224-pergola-2.yaml

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+id: 224
+name: Pergola Day 2
+description: Continuation of the Pergola from Mardini 2025
+date: 2025-05-10
+previous: 223
+next: 225
+previousInSequence: 196
+nextInSequence: 225
+thumbnails:
+  - /assets/images/houdini-daily-practice/224/thumbnail-0.png
+  - /assets/images/houdini-daily-practice/224/thumbnail-1.png
+assets:
+  - type: image
+    src: /assets/images/houdini-daily-practice/224/render-0.png
+  - type: image
+    src: /assets/images/houdini-daily-practice/224/render-1.png
+tags:
+  - sops
+  - uvs
+  - vdb
+  - dops
+  - vellum
+  - cops
+  - copernicus
+  - lops
+  - karma
+  - atmosphere
+  - solaris
+  - materialx
+  - creative
+pathToBody: houdini-daily-practice/bodies/0224-pergola-2.md

data-exporter/houdini-daily-practice/0225-pergola-3.yaml

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+id: 225
+name: Pergola Day 3
+description: Continuation of the Pergola from Mardini 2025
+date: 2025-05-11
+previous: 224
+previousInSequence: 224
+thumbnails:
+  - /assets/images/houdini-daily-practice/225/thumbnail-0.png
+  - /assets/images/houdini-daily-practice/225/thumbnail-1.png
+assets:
+  - type: image
+    src: /assets/images/houdini-daily-practice/225/render-0.png
+  - type: image
+    src: /assets/images/houdini-daily-practice/225/render-1.png
+tags:
+  - sops
+  - uvs
+  - vdb
+  - heightfield
+  - dops
+  - vellum
+  - cops
+  - copernicus
+  - opencl
+  - lops
+  - karma
+  - atmosphere
+  - solaris
+  - materialx
+  - slap-comp
+  - creative
+pathToBody: houdini-daily-practice/bodies/0225-pergola-3.md

data-exporter/houdini-daily-practice/bodies/0224-pergola-2.md

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+### Pergola (Day 2)
+
+This is a continuation of the project from day 4 of [Mardini 2025][mardini-2025].
+The prompt was "FOLIAGE", in the SOPS category.
+
+I really liked the original project, but the result was not what I'd wanted in
+almost any sense. I had to keep the scope low in order to get a finished product
+for the competition, so I cut corners just about everywhere.
+
+So now I'm coming back to this project, but this time I'll spend several days
+on improving it, a little bit at a time. I'm focusing on 2-3 things each day,
+rather than incrementally improving everything all at once.
+
+Today I:
+
+  - Made the modeling of the pergola a bit more procedural - fewer hardcoded values.
+  - Adjusted the pergola dimensions (mostly reducing the hight, to make it appear
+    wider without increasing the simulation size.)
+  - Added detail to the column base, made column tops more consistent.
+  - Added procedural materials using Copernicus COPs nodes for the floor and
+    columns.
+  - Add bushes on all sides (not just two) with gaps for walkways.
+  - Adjusted vine simulation, gave the vines a more variable thickness so they
+    aren't 100% width when the draping vines end.
+  - Deleted the grass, which was completely unrecoverable due to it being a
+    placeholder and ugly AF to boot.
+  - Adjusted sun position, camera positions, several of the other (very much
+    temporary) render materials.

data-exporter/houdini-daily-practice/bodies/0225-pergola-3.md

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+### Pergola (Day 3)
+
+This is a continuation of the project from day 4 of [Mardini 2025][mardini-2025].
+The prompt was "FOLIAGE", in the SOPS category.
+
+Today I:
+
+  - Adjusted column material and edge detail.
+  - Add tile cracks (using OpenCL kernel to apply randomness and select between 25 crack textures).
+    This was surprisingly difficult to do.
+  - Add crappy initial wood texture for pergola struts.
+  - Art-direct mountains, use copernicus to create terrain texture with better snowcaps.
+  - Fix vine material (looked invisible sometimes depending on the light position.)
+  - Add slap comp, mostly adjusting saturation and value. I have a very poor instinct for
+    what looks good, so I'm mostly just trying different things. I increased the saturation
+    overall, added a yellow tint, then decreased the value of the darker areas to make them
+    darker still and increase the contrast.
+
+Planned:
+
+  - Add bench model and materials
+  - Dirt/muddy tracks on floor
+  - Add walkway stones
+  - Improve the way that leaves are generated, use an actual texture for them.
+  - Add transition between tile floor and grass/walkway stones
+  - Add grapes to vines
+  - Add flowers to bushes
+  - Add grass texture (or actually model grass or something)
+  - ...more