This smoke is incredible.  'Nuff said!

-Law

Tim Nikias wrote:

> So, here is a funky example of the already discussed
> wind-turbulence-algorithm.
>
> There are several effects to be seen:
> 1. The Particles grow in size
> 2. They are spread a bit uneven using the turbulenced wind
>
> No Gravity, or own movement, affects the path,
> its all wind-driven.
>
> There are 100 particles, parsing per frame
> was 2.5 seconds, tracing per frame 7 minutes
> and 38 seconds.
> All in all, the 50 images needed 6 hours and 12
> minutes to complete on my 1.4 GHZ-512MBRAM-Win98
> system.
>
> Using scattering media requires patience...
>
> Comments?
>
> --
> Tim Nikias
> Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights/index.html
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