Blobbing Particles III

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Blobbing Particles III

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Last edited Dec 3, 2018

Created on Jul 29, 2016

Two semi-transparent layers of particle clusters merge and separate continuously on a dark SVG canvas. Closer particles appear brighter and more pronounced, while distant ones fade to a baseline opacity. The animation uses D3 v4 for SVG rendering, simplex-noise.js for smooth wandering motion, and a distance-limited Voronoi technique to clip radial-gradient circles, creating the organic blobbing effect.

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This block is a continuation of a previous block, and a recreation:

apply radial gradient to circle, and clip each circle with a distanceLimitedVornoy cell
use 2 layers: cells of the same layer are blobbing/merging thanks to distanceLimitedVornoy technique; cells of distinct layers are overlapping
[new wrt. previous block] closer particles have higher intensity
[new wrt. previous block] use SimplexNoise for smooth movements

Acknowledgments to:

<a href='https://d3js.org/'>D3.js</a> (v3.4)
<a href='http://blockbuilder.org'>blockbuilder.org</a>
<a href='https://github.com/jwagner/simplex-noise.js'>simplex-noise.js</a>

gpl-3.0 Licensed

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