COS 426 Assignment 4: Particle system examples.

COS 426, Spring 2013
Assignment 4 particle system examples.

These animations have been created as animated gif files, using a variation of the command

 convert -delay 4 -loop 0 video-frames/frame*.jpg video.gif

which is available on most Linux platforms as part of the ImageMagick package and can be obtained for the Mac OS X platform, and for recent Windows releases.

Individual particles

oneparticle.scn

cannonball.scn

dragrace.scn

Particle sources

starburst.scn

angle_cutoff.scn

gravity.scn

Assets: smoke_particle-embed.jpg, mask.jpg

Each particle is drawn as a semi-transparent blob of smoke, using the color and alpha images supplied above. Mark implemented an extension to the standard scene format: the keyword tmaterial to specify a material defined by an image with an alpha channel. The supplied scene files will not load in the default version of particleview.