Continuing with particle systems in Processing I stumbled upon some effects I’m very happy with. Although it wasn’t exactly what I was trying for at the time but have an aesthetic which is very interesting to me. The path of each particle is drawn at each frame with a semi-transparent circle, gray with a white border. The way the circles overlap create a pseudo 3d effect which reminds me a lot of an electron scanning microscope.
y
wow, this is beautiful and disturbing at the same time :) will it hold in animation as well? I mean how heavy is it?
tony
Thank you. The animation works pretty well but will start lagging with too many particles, especially with a large render window. Here is a video of it in action which might give a better idea of how it works.
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