Pufferfish Plugin Overview | Morphing & Twisted Boxes for Complex Forms

The course opens with a quick install pass for the three plugins you will need (Pufferfish, Weaverbird, and Mesh+) and then jumps straight into the base geometry that drives most of the examples: triply periodic minimal surfaces. Lazar walks you through three of them, including the Schwarz P, and shows why these surfaces are ideal for morphing work: they tile seamlessly across all three Cartesian axes, and the parameter sliders give you direct control over the size and position of the naked edges so neighboring tiles connect without gaps.

From there, the bulk of the course is two reusable component pairs. First, Tween two meshes vs Blend two meshes, with a clear explanation of the topology requirement (matching vertex count) and why Blend is the more powerful tool because it lets you drive a per-vertex factor with attractor geometry, distance-based reparameterization, and Pufferfish's Reparameterize Numbers. Second, Mesh Morph to Twisted Box, applied four ways: along a single curve with Twisted Box Curve, across a quad-remeshed SubD surface with Twisted Box Mesh (a Pantone chair example), and between two surfaces with Twisted Box Two Surfaces, including the orientation fix using Deconstruct and Construct Twisted Box. The session closes with the most ambitious example: a complex spiral staircase modeled by combining a hand-built SubD module, Twisted Box Loft along a rotating spiral, and Blend two meshes to morph between two slightly different SubD modules for a rich final form.