3D Particle Studio

Dragging turns the camera around the cloud; the wheel moves it closer.

Puts your original layer back on screen behind the particles, so you can line the cloud up with it.

The status line: how many particles are on screen, the current frame rate, and the preset in play.

A play head runs the animation on a loop; scrub it to land on an exact frame before you insert.

How many particles make up the cloud, from a sparse scatter to hundreds of thousands.

How large each particle is drawn.

How much the sizes differ from one particle to the next, for a less uniform cloud.

How long a fading tail each particle leaves behind as it moves.

How solid the particles are; lower values let the cloud build up where particles overlap.

Additive makes overlapping particles glow and add up to light; Normal keeps them opaque like paint.

The random starting point. The dice rolls a new one; the same seed always rebuilds the same cloud.

The particle’s own shape: glow dot, star sparkle, spark cross, ring, snowflake, hex bokeh, confetti plate, smoke puff - or any shape, SVG or text layer of your document, baked into a tiny mask.

Lets a share of the sprites spin and flutter like falling paper. Rotations complete in whole turns per loop, so the video still loops seamlessly.

Elongates each particle along its on-screen motion, like a short exposure. Fast sparks become streaks, slow drifts stay round.

Depth of field: particles away from the focus plane swell into faint, soft bokeh discs while the sharp zone stays crisp. Computed per particle, so it costs nothing.

Slides the sharp plane of Depth blur through the swarm, from the nearest particles to the farthest.

Shows eight seed-children of the current look as small previews. Click one and it becomes the new parent, with its own children waiting - a quick way to explore the chaotic cards generation by generation.

Simple forms: a flat grid, a filled sheet, a hollow sphere or a flat ring.

A spiral galaxy, a twisting helix and a filled cube.

Builds the cloud from a layer in your document, so the particles form the shape of the picture and can keep its colors.

Five sculptural homes: a trefoil knot, a woven Lissajous ribbon, a one-sided Möbius band, the classic filled heart curve and a twisting funnel. Every field, trail and morph works on them like on any other shape.

Type a few words and the swarm becomes them. The words are rasterised locally and sampled into particles, so they morph, disperse and travel like any other shape - and they survive into embeds, where the runtime rasterises them again.

How far the particles fill out the chosen shape.

Which layer the swarm is built from when the shape is Your layer.

How far the brighter parts of your layer push forward, giving the flat picture depth.

Colors each particle from your layer, so a face stays a face while the cloud forms and dissolves.

The classic iterated-function flame in its silky recipe: soft sine folds that build glowing ember structures. The palette follows the structure, not the position.

A flame recipe with a swirling map inside, blooming into petal-like violet folds.

A flame recipe folded through the disc, weaving ring-shaped golden lace.

The Clifford attractor: folded veils with bright caustic edges, given layered depth so the camera can look around it.

The De Jong attractor: looping ribbons of mist. With a little motion stretch the drift shows as flowing streaks.

Pickover's three-dimensional attractor, a genuinely deep cloud that rewards orbiting.

THE strange attractor: the Lorenz system, integrated live so the two wings of the butterfly emerge from hundreds of thousands of flowing particles. Drift lets the system breathe over the loop; trails turn it into streaming weather.

The Aizawa system: a glowing plasma sphere with a bright polar jet, drawn by particles orbiting a chaotic flow. Slow pendulum orbits show its depth best.

Barry Martin’s hopping map, settling into golden fractal webs. Every seed picks a curated parameter set and jitters it gently; the Breed button walks its children.

The Gumowski-Mira map, blooming into coral swirls and star-shaped ornaments. Small parameter steps change the species completely - breeding seeds is the way to explore it.

Chooses the flame recipe: Silky, Floral or Cosmic. Each one is a different family of variations, not just different colors.

Lets the chaotic parameters breathe over the loop, so the structure slowly morphs and returns to its start without a seam. Zero freezes the picture.

A swirling, smoke-like flow that keeps the cloud turning in on itself.

A soft, organic drift that nudges every particle along a wandering path.

A rolling wave that passes through the cloud.

A rotation that winds the cloud around an axis.

Switches motion off and holds the cloud in its shape.

How strongly the field pushes.

How large the field’s pattern is, from fine detail to broad sweeps.

How many times the motion repeats over one loop of the timeline.

The vibrating-plate field: particles gather on the nodal lines where real sand would settle, and the figure changes frequency over the loop.

Streams the particles along the contours of a picture. Pick a layer and the studio bakes a flow map from it; every particle then drifts along the strokes for one cycle, fades and is reborn - the painterly, van-Gogh-like current behind the Flowing paint preset. Amount sets the stream length, Cycles how many times the current runs per loop.

Draws lines between particles that are close together, turning the cloud into a shifting web.

Moves the particles from one shape into another, so the cloud transforms between forms.

Pulls nearby particles towards it, or pushes them away.

Spins nearby particles around it, so the cloud twists where the pin sits.

Sprays particles upward and lets them fall back down.

Sends soft, glowing specks drifting upward like sparks off a fire.

Throws a ring of particles outward from a point.

A bright flash of particles scattering out in every direction.

Streaks that shoot across the scene trailing tails.

The weather-and-celebration set: rockets that rise and burst in three staggered shells, fluttering paper, drifting flakes, streaking rain, crackling sparks and slow smoke - all seamless loops.

Real fire: each particle is born white-hot and cools through yellow and orange into sooty red as it ages, because the color ramp follows the particle’s life. Motion stretch shapes the tongues; the candle is the same idea, small and calm.

Standalone looks that need no picture, from a slow morph to an exploding supernova.

Looks built from your own layer: a portrait made of particles, a picture blown apart by the wind, or one that assembles itself into place.

The v4 form cards: Chladni sand figures, sculptural light shapes, a murmuration that never repeats, floating bokeh with real depth of field, and a sheet of glinting glitter.

Turns a layer of your document into flowing paint: the particles carry the picture’s own colors and stream along its contours in a seamless loop. Needs a picked layer, like Particle portrait.

Places the current frame on the canvas as a picture layer.

Copies one block of HTML that keeps the engine running on any website, with no library and no outside request.

Closes the studio without changing your document.