This Houdini tool was built to optimize the output of my Snapshot tool. The single "blob" that snapshot generates is accurate but extremely heavy. It usually contains thousands of overlapping, self-intersecting surfaces. This tool turns it into a clean, watertight, dramatically lighter mesh while preserving the true shape of the motion.

The original use case was representing the dynamic motion path of robotic ride systems in a way that is both accurate and performant enough to hand off to other disciplines working on the attraction.

Though originally designed for use with ride systems, the same pipeline has since been used to clean up and optimize engineering models for 3D printing.

You can see the tool, sample files, and the documentation on GitHub.