Quantum Fields - Jason Fletcher

Jason Fletcher created this incredible Quantum Fields visualization using Stipple.

Per the video description-

The Stipple plugin for After Effects is exactly what I’ve been looking for since it does simulations very quickly and so it allows me to explore ideas without any friction. Also it takes video clips as input to drive the force fields, which enables me to do loads of experiments and focus on hunting for what feels evocative. So I experimented with some different base settings for the simulations and landed on two main looks. One look has the particles a constant size and the particle color changes according to its velocity. The other look has the particle size and color change according to its velocity.

I did some fine-tuning of the force field settings and found the Image Attract Force attribute to be important in getting the feel that I was after. After some experiment, I ran with 1000 particles at 100 simulation steps per second for most scenes. Also I would tweak the playback speed of the input footage according to the needs of each scene. A weird quirk was since I was working at 3840x2160, but some of the input footage was 1920x1080, I found that I needed to scale it up to 199% instead of 200% otherwise the particles would stick to the outer edges of the frame. Watching the particles form into ephemeral shapes matches the feeling in my mind of how ideas come and go.

Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teEd7Z-sEVk