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Me again!
Well, I've slapped some little code together to show another bit of my
particle-system.
What we see is a blue bezier-spline, which moves along another
bezier-spline (red side ones) and emits particles, that stick to another
(invisible) bezier-spline.
I could have the particles move on, but that was not the purpose of this
demonstration. It's just that I did not see any particle system do an
effect
like that, there's mostly just physical-particle-interaction.
So, instead of moving freely about, particles may also be set to
initially head for
a position, spline or interpolation of vectors (a line, so to speak).
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Attachments:
Download 'beziers.mpg' (251 KB)
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"Tim Nikias" wrote:
> What we see is a blue bezier-spline, which moves along
> another bezier-spline (red side ones) and emits particles,
> that stick to another (invisible) bezier-spline.
Hmm, interesting. But I'm not sure what actual uses it has. It would
probably look more interesting if you made an example animation of an actual
use of the system.
> So, instead of moving freely about, particles may also be
> set to initially head for a position, spline or
> interpolation of vectors (a line, so to speak).
I don't think it looks very natural. It doesn't look like the particles are
thrown to their location, neither as if they are attracted to it. It looks
like something is artificially moving them there. I think it's due to the
speed and movement, which both seems to be linear.
Rune
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From: Tim Nikias
Subject: Re: Another demonstration of Particles
Date: 4 Dec 2001 03:24:40
Message: <3C0C87DB.86D3B0@gmx.de>
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> Hmm, interesting. But I'm not sure what actual uses it has. It would
> probably look more interesting if you made an example animation of an actual
> use of the system.
>
I'll get at it tomorrow...
>
> I don't think it looks very natural. It doesn't look like the particles are
> thrown to their location, neither as if they are attracted to it. It looks
> like something is artificially moving them there. I think it's due to the
> speed and movement, which both seems to be linear.
>
Well, the time it takes each particle to move to the designated position is
for each and every one the same, so speed and direction are adjusted
to have them move.
It's just an example of what the system is also capable of, which I haven't seen
much of in other system (as already mentioned...)
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