How difficult would it be to do something like this in houdini?
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Check out Entagma tutorials and tokeru DOPs.
http://www.entagma.com/category/tutorials/page/2/
http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=HoudiniDops#Pop_stick_to_surface
It looks a lot like fancy bacterial growth.
http://forums.odforce.net/topic/26192-cell-expension-algorithm-suggestion/?do=findComment&comment=152046