Particles - Ian Thomas

Particle Swarm Experiment 3

The little experiment now has multiple modes and a little system for sequencing them. I think this might be as far as I take this for now, but may end up coming back to it to add some new bits and pieces. Particle Swarm 3 The code is pretty straightforward

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Particle Swarm Experiment part 2

I'm starting to pull the particles experiment into some form of shape now so it's possible to visualise the underlying shape a bit better. I've also tightened up the colour scheme a little bit rather than just using random values. Main.swf Download this

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A happy accident

Whilst playing with extending the HYPE framework I stumbled across this happy accident. It's not really what I'd intended the piece to do, but I think it looks really cool anyway. Main.swf Download this file I'm using the ObjectPool along

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40 000 Particles with a Perlin Flow Field using Actionscript

Sounds really exciting doesn't it but what you see below you is the result of little experiment to see how many particles my computer could handle at a decent frame-rate. I got up to 75 000 before it started to chug but for the sake of demonstration

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Big swooping circle things!!

<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> After playing some more with a particle engine I'd written, I started to wonder what would happen if I drew using the particles as anchor points. This is the result, a massive abstract mess!! Getting closer in to