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Amorphium is a program that attempts to create the feel of modeling with clay
on a computer screen. You generally pick a basic primitive shape and grab a tool
and start pushing and pulling until you get what you want. Apparently that
didn't seem to have a wide enough appeal so they started marketing it as a
program into which you could import models from other programs and add realistic
looking scrapes, scratches, dents and assorted other real world damage. Strange
as this may seem a lot of 3D CG artists put a lot of value on the ability to
make things look less than perfect and thereby more real even to the extent of
causing rust, scratches, pitting, garbage, pollution, smoke and other things,
that we don't like in the real world, to be prominent in their fantasy
world. Go figure. I particular enjoyed taking bitmaps, often from fractal
programs, and applying them to simple objects in successive passes to achieve a
sort of semi organic set of shapes featured on my site at the link below.
Right now you can see just a few models I made with Amorphium at this link.
http://www.computer-music.com/graphic/amorphium01.htm
Amorphium was originally sold by Play Inc. But Electric Image has purchased
back the rights and has recently released a while new version called Amorphium
Pro. At this web site you can read all about it and download a demo version.
They are honoring upgrades prices if you purchased the original Amorphium from
Play Inc.
http://www.amorphium.com/
I never did anything terribly complex with Amorphium but it did whet my
appetite for something more so I decided to try again with Bryce. This time it
was Bryce 4.
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