Atomic Wave Function animation ideas

[remainz]

HI Maxers

Im just looking for ideas how to approach  modelling and animation the wave function in 3dsmax.

Attached below are a couple of pics that I hope to use to model from.

I imagine that some kind of nurb surface made from animated splines. ie from the animated gif below.

Can anyone advise if this is the right approach? Im not familiar with nurbs yet and Id like to start on the right foot.

thanks

Moe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function

[leeminardi]

Is your goal to make an animation something like this?

[remainz]

Yes. Although Id like to have some animation of the shape too. More than spinning camera at least.

[remainz]

Any idea how to make such shapes in max? Just an approach would be great.

[leeminardi]

There are many shapes for wave functions.  It is not clear which one are of interest to you and how the shape should change in an animation.  Many of the shapes I found in a Google search were simple axisymmetric shapes that could be created with a spline and a lathe modifier like this.

The following shape was created by converting a plane to a NURBS surface and then pulling its control vertices like this.

Please provide a specific example that show the 3D nature of th shape.

[remainz]

thanks a lot

i will have go with nurbs surfaces