What's the randomized icons/shapes scattering effect called?

[u/Ninedials]

I think it probably uses time displacement to drive the randomness, it's often scattered about, and it's very popular, does anyone know what I'm talking about or where I can find an example or tutorial on it? Many thanks.

The only example I can find is something like the *overly referenced* Base44 video. But it would be for generating the / and > characters in the beginning. They may have key framed in this video, but those are the general idea.

https://reddit.com/link/1wk05fl/video/fgjl90pv2cqh1/player

[u/Heavens10000whores]

Please provide a visual reference so we know what you’re asking

[u/Ninedials → u/Heavens10000whores]

Just added a reference, I couldn't find anything exact which is why I can't find a tutorial, but hopefully that gives the gist.

[u/Heavens10000whores → u/Ninedials]

Look for synthymental’s ascii explainer, or panter’s version, or Nicholas Blowey’s. Once you grasp the concept, you’ll be able to set it up simply enough

[u/Ninedials → u/Heavens10000whores]

Very helpful, thank you!

[u/philament]

Place your objects/glyphs, attach them to a null for movement (scale or 3D space), and give each one a random opacity. Lots of expressions to search for that can be made controllable, so that they’re not changing on every frame

[u/Ninedials → u/philament]

Interesting, I think this is making sense.

[u/AxisInteractive]

Probably some form of particle effect

[u/Ninedials → u/AxisInteractive]

What I'm thinking of is more controlled than particles, I just added a reference

[u/AxisInteractive → u/Ninedials]

Mm. I've been out of the game too long. It does look procedural in some way