Spiralling particles effect

[Lloyd Alvarez]

You can animate the position in a spiral by moving the x & y on a sine and cosine wave and z in time like this:

phase=0;
amplitude=20;
frequency=10;
z_stretch=100;
x=Math.sin((time+phase)*frequency)*amplitude;
y=Math.cos((time+phase)*frequency)*amplitude;
z= (time+phase)*z_stretch;
[x,y,z]

You can change the value of the phase (positive or negative) for your second strand so that they twirl around each other.

If you are using particular you’ll need to split the expression out like this:

phase=0;
amplitude=20;
frequency=10;
z_stretch=100;
x=Math.sin((time+phase)*frequency)*amplitude;
y=Math.cos((time+phase)*frequency)*amplitude;
[x,y]

and:

phase=0;
amplitude=20;
frequency=10;
z_stretch=100;
z=(time+phase)*z_stretch;

-Lloyd

https://aescripts.com

[Steve Blacker]

I’ll try this out tomorrow and see how it goes. I really appreciate you taking the time to post – thanks so much;

Steve

[Yafes Altun]

Really nice thing i am impressed. Steve, i would be glad, if you would share your project with us, so that we can see if it has worked out or not 😉 (i mean outputfile)

thanks

[Steve Blacker]

Of course! I am still working on it, but I aim to be finished in a couple of weeks at most (it’s a music video). I’ll post a link here when it’s done.