I guess you're pretty much right on this one.

In this case though, I was thinking that we have some
particle-system coders running around here on the
newsgroups, and at least those might be interested...

But, I suspect that though they have seen it, they
don't know what to comment on it. After all, its
just an inerta demonstration, and it works. So there's
no option for "do this" or "do that" (except a "do a
useful animation" ;)

I'll keep that in mind for future posts. Thanks for
your note though, I guess it woke me up from my
"wow, neat code/algorithm working here, anyone
wanna see?"... ;)

Rune wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> while the animation is technically impressive, it's not very good at
> demonstrating of what use it is. Generally I prefer demo scenes and
> animations which resembles recognizable environments or situations.
>
> For example a good demonstration of a particle system might make people
> think "water!" or "smoke!" or "sparks!" or similar. In your animation I
> only think of a box and some spheres and I don't know how I could use it
> in one of my scenes.
>
> Consider the difference between the questions "what can it do?" and
> "what can it be used for?". I think that the success of a utility,
> macro, include file etc. depends mostly on how well the last question is
> answered, not the first. Sadly, because some people don't recognize
> this, some very good and powerful utilities are sometimes used by very
> few people. (That's my theory anyway.)
>
> I think some of your other demo animations were very good, for example
> those demonstrating smoke effects. But this one, though it's a nice
> effect, doesn't really appeal to me because I don't see any use of it.
>
> While saying this, I should also acknowledge that some of the demo
> scenes for my own particle system were also a bit too abstract. But I
> try to remind myself to primarily attempt to simulate things which I
> could see myself using in a real scene rather than just in a particle
> system demo.
>
> This is all of course just my own opinion. Other's thoughts are most
> welcome! :)
>
> Rune

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