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Particle Field

A matrix of vectors acting upon a field of particles. Reminiscent of falling water or snow, slightly. Click and drag to ‘draw’ vectors on the field to influence the movement of particles.

For me, the idea comes from Charles Forman’s blog post in Setpixel from 2004, “Snow is fun.” Which is incredibly great. And done in Processing.

Source code:

- Actionscript 3 class

- Full project (Flash 9/AS3)

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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5 Responses to “Particle Field”

1. Benz Says:
   October 8th, 2007 at 6:30 am

   beautiful!

2. AndyRazz Says:
   October 9th, 2007 at 10:20 pm

   Mesmerizing. I’d love to see it with a ’save/load vector matix’ option.

3. Pedro Says:
   October 25th, 2007 at 1:10 am

   awesome experiment.

4. nurah Says:
   May 18th, 2008 at 8:19 am

   beautiful!

5. 3d animation studio Says:
   July 6th, 2008 at 12:40 am

   What you do is really quite amazing! We work in 3D and we use particle effects too. Here’s an example. http://www.media-freaks.com/inhouse-animation-projects/tornado-special-vfx-mediafreaks.html

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