Modelling pollen 3d mesh

Question

I am kind of a noob in blender, who's trying to model a grain of pollen for an ai experiment. The pollen grain is this one:

And I don't know how to model that random wireframe that overlaps itself in blender, 'cause the blender wireframe modifier only lets me build a perfect wireframe with no overlapping.

I'm not native speaker so maybe some words are incorrect. Thank you if you can help me.

You could use the Tissue Add-on that comes bundled with Blender 2.8x. You have to activate it in "Menu - Edit- Preferences - Add-Ons" — metaphor_set, May 08 '20 at 21:46
Try to find some noise images that are similar to it, and use this noise image as a displacement map. — Samproductionn, May 08 '20 at 20:13

moonboots · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-09T11:12:37.107

I'm not sure about what you mean with the random wireframe overlapping. To make this object I think you should fake the texture rather than model it, I see at least 2 ways:

With a Noise node > Height of a Bump node > Normal of a Diffuse. Here I've even mixed 2 noises in a MixRGB to give a bit more complexity. I also added a Layer Weight at the end, if necessary.

You could also create a repeatable texture from your original image. Unwrap your object, in the 3D view / Texture Paint mode, use the Stencil brush to paint on your object with your texture, and again use this with a Bump node.

Modelling pollen 3d mesh

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