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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