I think I had a vision like this while reading about quantum-mechanics. Cool metaballs and animation! Now if you could put this on your Christmas tree . . .

Anything is possible, some things are possible. These are. Sounds like a diffcult programme to me. You are very clever.

wild as usual and very original art work

Whoa, that is like hypnotizing man...

LOL!...cool work! YES! It can be done!!!

Incredible !!! This a wonderful work of art and imagination !! gorgeous beyond the valley of the lava lamps to say the least !!!

Fantastic! This is enough to keep me dizzy for a while...

Very nice. I did something similar a week ago as an experiment (using the randomiser tool to make a 0-gee gell thing blow apart). Mine took 22 hours to render on a Mac mini. How long did yours take and on what machine?

I heard through the grapevine that you like to play with your balls but I never believed it till now :D Fantastic animation my friend!!! (sorry, I'm such a bad, bad girl...hehe)

What Robo said ... and very cool too!

Whatever robotalk says.

excellent interaction of these metaballs....

Good question AeroJett, 7.75 minutes on a G5 dual 2GHZ Macintosh, in Bryce 5.

When it comes to animation and you I think anything is possible and I'm always amazed at what you can accomplish.

Lava-lover here...LW has this kool metaball FX too !!! looks like it is straight out of "CSI", DNA strands ! great experiment Cheers

Totally cool! Its fun to pick one ball and follow it all around its path.

EXCELLENT !!!!

cool looking and fun

i like it... great job!

WOW. Cool. Now that is mesmerizing. Would make a great screensaver. I love how the metaballs stretch and revert. Wonderful animation. Excellent !!!!

juggle ballz, juggle ballz, juggle all the way... oh, where am I? That was some trip :D

So is that done like a cartoon animation with lots of frames? And how are you stretching and changing the shapes? It's very effective.

very cool & mesmerizing!

Yes them meta's are fun in animation ----and very unpredictable when you need detail persition --bad choice ---But for a fill as say a Kneecap to join leg together and have a reasonable movement --they are great ---LOVE your playfull display Digimon--You Had Fun and it shows !!!

Good question Rozanne! There are only 7 frames in this one. About Meta Balls Meta Balls have magnetic attraction to one another, as soon as they get close enough to another one, they warp their shape and connect, two Meta Balls make one shape, three make another. The shapes were expected, what suprised me was that they blended their color too!! Very cool. So all this animation really is, is a bunch of Meta Balls spinning around and colliding with each other. All the shape changing and color blending happens automatically.

Thanks for the lecture, Eric :-) This nucleus thing seems to emulate natural phenomenon like water in zero-g held in place by gravitational or magnetic forces. All very curious and the ideal subject for animation. btw, I like your QuickTime movie suggestion. Maybe we could try a basic experiment together? Stand by. Energize the the animation generator!

It mez-mo-rize me. I m e z m o r i z e d. Meta balls = neverending fun.

Awesome animation! Bravo!

What a great gallery you have. Thanks

Excellent smashed warped perpetual trajectories!! So beautifull & hypnotic result !! Fantastic experimental artwork !! xxxxx Thks 4share!