ParticleSystem

I have seen many particle systems released on many different blogs. I’ve always thought that they were pretty cool and I’ve thought multiple times about making one myself, but decided not to for the single reason that I didn’t want to be just the next guy to jump on the bandwagon of things that have already been done. But, after seeing Seb Lee-Delisle’s presentation on particle systems at Flash on the Beach ’07, I became a little more interested in doing it. Then, at the end of Robert Hodgin’s extremely cool presentation about processing, he left us with one simple image:

I don’t want to make the same crap that everyone else has been making, but I feel like you need somewhere to start. If a particle system was a good enough starting spot for Hodgin, it is for me to. So, on the plane ride home yesterday, I made my particle system from scratch. I didn’t want to look at anyone else’s code or algorithms, for better or worse, I just wanted to go for it. So, this may or may not be the most efficient way to do it, but here it is:

demo | source

More work on this to come in the near future…