Flocking Particle Rays from Syed Reza Ali on Vimeo.
At first glance the above ‘Light Storm’ project doesn’t seem very impressive but as you watch the animation cycle through its many phases and mutate time after time into something completely new you begin to realize that you’ve probably never seen this kind of lighting effect before. It’s almost alien, and not to mention pretty gorgeous. Worth the view.
More notes below from www.syedrezaali.com:
Light Storm is a project that explores 3D space, particle systems, flocking, spheres shaders, light scattering, interaction, and electromagnetic forces. The original idea was to develop a particle system that would flock like birds on the surface of a sphere, and then to have the surface of that sphere broken up into surface patches via a 3D surface voronoi algorithm. This was documented in my research presentation for MAT 594CM. As the project grew, I used a sculptor’s methodology to determine what the end aesthetic of the piece should be.
Creator’s website -> http://www.syedrezaali.com
Music -> 13 & God – “afterclap”
