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build-interactive-particle-trail

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Build a cursor or touch particle interaction that emits by distance along the traveled segment into a recycled GPU point pool, with optional keyboard-triggered bursts. Use for interactive particle trails, pollen lifted from a surface, dust disturbed by a pointer, hover particle bursts, and discrete motes whose spacing must stay consistent at different gesture speeds.

When to use

• interactive particle trails
• pollen lifted from a surface
• dust disturbed by a pointer
• hover particle bursts
• discrete motes with consistent spacing at different gesture speeds

When not to use

• autonomous atmosphere particles
• continuous fluid or shader ribbon

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