Video

Dance of the Wisps – Using Curl Fields for 3D Particle Simulations

Bart ·
Abstract digital art featuring a glowing, multicolored ring against a black background.

Samuel created this short particle animation using ‘curl fields’ – a way to calculate the rotation of vectors around a point, a way to simulate particles sliding off a virtual 3D landscape. If that sounds very mathematical – it is! He provides an in-depth overview of the process on Blender Artists.

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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