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For this animation I used a particle texture to influence the particle size

you can download the blend file here

for this animation I used particles aligned on the vertices of a subdivided plane and a voronoi texture that influenced the particle velocity

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I used a texture to influence density, lifetime and size of the particles

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a view days ago I made a processing sketch that connected some random moving dots if they are within a certain distance. I tried to recreate this plexus like effect in blender by using displacement and remesh modifier on a mesh in blender

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for this animation I traced some slow moving particles on a torus using the bTrace addon

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for this animation I used the molecular addon on a particle system made of blocks

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For this animation I used the bTrace addon to trace some particles and added another particle system that generates particles for a isosurface.

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for this animation I used a fluid particle system and the cubesurfer addon

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I applied some displacement modifiers to a iso-surface mesh created using the cubesurfer addon you can download the blend file here

my recent blender experiments with particles that emit particles sparked a lot more interest than I thought they would. I received a lot of requests for a tutorial - so here it is.

What can you learn from this tutorial?

In this tutorial I show how to use an object as a particle instance and make that object a particle system itself.

Why do I need that?

U can use this for all sorts of cool stuff like organic structures made of particles, flowers, fireworks, ... Here is a screenshot of the final animation we will create in this tutorial

How is it done?

first we need an object to emit a basic particle system, so lets add a simple ico-sphere and add a particle system. Set the start and end frame to 1 and make sure the particles live through your whole animation. Also set the number of particles very low, because these will be the emitters for the second particle system.