History: Particular and the birth of Form

Here are two "historic" AE project files that I originally created and posted to the AE-list in 2005.

Download the first one - the black and white: particular4df.aep
Download the second one - the colorful (below): particular4df_mcol.aep

These two AEP's were incredibly appreciated. The colorful one was over time downloaded more than 20000 times from Trapcode People. There was only one problem - people didn't understand how they worked. And admittedly it was a bit complicated having to use the rather exotic Layer Emitter and Layer Grid Emitter. 

I thought about it for a while and decided to try and make a new plug-in to make these types of effects more accessible - I called it "Flux". We did some previews and it became clear that "Flux" sounded too similar to the already existing "Lux" (specially over the phone!) so we decided to rename it. I choose the name "Form" because I think it described the functionality and I've always liked the Form/Emptiness duality that creates everything in this world. During development Form evolved so it can do much more than these types of effects.