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Rex Cardan is a medical physicist at Brown Cancer Center in Louisville, KY. Besides aiding in cancer therapy, Dr. Cardan creates illustrations for medical publications and classroom learning. He loves to use new technology in art to illustrate and teach abstract physical concepts.
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Create Some Dazzling Particle Effects Using ICE in Softimage

Rex Cardan on Sep 15th 2009 with 8 comments

Using the graphically based, plug and play programming of ICE, you will create and learn to control the motion of electron clouds around a nucleus. This tutorial covers constraints to motion, how to do vector math, particle trails, creating and reusing ICE compounds, and even some basic ICE particle rendering. If you don’t already, you will come to love the flexibility and power that ICE provides to your simulations.

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