I have been playing around with particles and using them to draw stuff for a few days now and I must say its fun, even tough its old school and nothing new. Just by changing some parameters and values you can change the way the particles behave without having to write completely new code to do so. Here is an experiment trying to get near a spray paint effect: Spray Particles.
Here is an example of something I call Noise Sand, which I think describes the effect pritty much: Noise Sand Particles.
This one is quite similar to the spray paint just using a higher blur value and tweeking the values a little: Blood Particles.
I will post the code for the particle paint effect as soon as I find some time to tidy it up a little. I am also thinking about using these effect together with the WiiFlash library and infrared light sources…
Update 6. May 2009: Somehow I forgot all about this little idea. So code is still untidy but never the less, here it is: ParticlePainter.zip
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December 8, 2008
Hi Alan,
looks cool though it runs a bit slow in the browser. How long will the sources take to be tidied up
December 8, 2008
Hi Paul,
you are right, the swfs seem to run really slow as popup.
If you want, you can give them another try, should run at about 10 frames faster:
http://lab.adjazent.com/projects/particlepainter/spraypaint.swf
http://lab.adjazent.com/projects/particlepainter/noisesandpaint.swf
http://lab.adjazent.com/projects/particlepainter/bloodpaint.swf
Kind Regards
Alan
December 8, 2008
This is really cool!
December 12, 2008
Yeah, looks great. nice work!
May 5, 2009
Love the “Spray Particles” Alan, really nice effect!
Btw, how about the sources you mentioned? Are we allowed to take a peek at those? If you had a little time, it would be awesome to share them.
Thanks man!