Creating a nice, organic blend between two polygon surfaces

[Alex M. Lehmann]

Hi all,

I've got to create a "flowing" object that needs lots of nice blends between separate polygon objects. I'm looking for an effect that reminds of "metaballs" (look at the highend3d.com logo if you don't know what I mean =)... now I have to blend between the side of a cylinder and a sphere and wonder whether any of you has an idea of how to do it. I looked into lofting but it doesn't seem to create exactly what I want.

Thanks a bunch,

Lx

[patrick.n]

Have you looked at michele sandroni's metaballs plugin?

http://www.motionblur.it/