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For this part of my blender particle experiments I dissolved a bunch of cubes that are stacked up as a cone.

To move them around I added a turbulence forcefield and to dissole the particles I added a particle texture that changes the size.

you can download the blend file here

In this part of my blender particle experiments I made a sphere explode - and added some light effects - and dust - and a glare effect - and a green glow - and it is in slow-motion :-)

you can download the blend file here

For this part of my blender particle experiments I made a group of butterflys. The particles are set to boid-physics and the butterflies are simple mesh with two faces that are animated via 2 bones. The textures have been drawn in gimp.

you can download the blend file here

and the textures here and the second one here

In this part of my blender particle experiments I used the particle system to trigger some smoke inside a bottle. The liquid is animated by using a texture that uses object mapping and a moving empty.

I think the flask would fit perfectly on the working desk of a mad scientist

you can download the blend file here

In this part of my blender particle experiments I made some soap-bubbles. I made a transparent material and a magic texture to change the color. The particle system is set to fluid particles and I added a particle texture to make the bubbles grow and shrink depending on their lifetime

you can download the blend file here

I recently found the "Duplication->Faces"-Feature in blender - it alows you to parent an object to a mesh and then replace all faces of that mesh by instances of the object.

really nice if you want to make lots of objects in a regular shape.

In this animation I made a plane that gets animated by a displacement-modifier and added some spheres which replace the faces

you can download the blend file here

I made an irregular grid with a particle system, an explode modifierer, and a bevel modifier. To shift the pieces a bit I also placed a turbulence field below my grid.

I originally wanted to make an animation of it, but unfortunately my linux box died this weekend and my imac is working really hard to even render a single frame version :-/

you can download the blend file here

In this part of my blender particle experiments I used a particle texture to influence the scale and the dencity of a particle system to turn a simple box into a city-skyline. Definitly not as fancy as any of the "Generate your city"-plugins for blender - but very easy to use and quick to set up.

you can download the blend file here and the image I used for the particle texture here

This time I didn't render an animation but only a image. The cubes have been generated by a no-pyhsics particle system, that uses a group of 4 cubes with rounded corners. The image has been rendered with cycles.

you can download the blend file here

for this part of my blender particle experiments I made a particle system with 10000 cubes and moved them around by a wind forcefield - this animation was rendered using cycles and I also added a dept-of-field blure to make the cubes look smaller

you can download the blend file here