Particle Simulation rendered with Cycles

By HAL9000.

HAL9000 writes:

1.000.000 particles simulation, made with Blender, rendered with Cycles! It took about 30 hours to render (on a GTX 660 Ti). Here some other stats:

• bake time ~1 hour, 15 (!) GB baked files.
• turbulence and force field to control the particles (these are no fluid particles but newtonians that bake a lot faster!)
• 100 samples per frame (I keyed the noise seed so that every frame has another noise seed)
• the particles' material is glossy (roughness 0.0) with a particle info node that controls color by velocity
• timestep .055
• 2 emission planes (invisible to camera) and a hdri image for lighting (self created with Blender)
• 1920x1080, 30p