Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Particle Life is a new(ish), super popular autonomous agent system that is able to produce very organic, microorganism-like patterns with particles. So of course we had to build our own version in Houdini, right? In this video we'll cover the basic ideas of Particle Life and build it as a POP force, which works both in 2D and 3D.

Links mentioned in the video:
ventrella.com/Clusters
youtube.com/watch?v=p4YirERTVF0

Download Project Files
entagma.com/downloads/Freetut_ParticleLife.zip

Timecodes:
00:00 Intro and Theory
07:14 Houdini Prep
12:19 Coding the Algorithm
19:26 Playing with the Algorithm