4042 - Transform input for expander like in Crystalize?

[Tomatiy]

It is not my idea, just a reminder on previous post on the forum that i did randomly found:

Terrain practicing

That’s definitely an excellent use of the Expander! And an interesting idea - it should be straighforward to add a transform input to the expander, which would allow you to apply a distortion/anisotropy/etc to the forms that it creates and breakup the shapes. I’ll take a peek at this and see if it is as possible as it seems to add.

currently there no such thing, also primary post have no comment on the result is that possible or no

[Stephen]

There was no way to add this that would be efficient with the current implementation method.

The Expander device remains a target for future work. In particular, it has two real jobs:

1. Grow/Shrink/Simplify the spatial extents of masks
2. Alter the shape of a terrain

The same algorithm is used to do both right now, but seperating their function into two different devices would allow for a much more efficient implementation for #1, and more options for #2, including this suggestion. This remains as something I’d like to do.