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Dave> I haven't checked out your image yet, but I have a pretty good
Dave> idea of the effect you're striving for and how to do it....

Dave> Save the motion paths you've created for your spinning
Dave> electrons and apply it to progressively smaller and more
Dave> transparent versions of the electron object with the motion
Dave> paths shifted by one for each object.  Use object dissolve
Dave> instead of surface transparency to speed up rendering...and
Dave> don't activate double-sided polygons for these electron
Dave> trails...in fact, use single point polygons if you can, they
Dave> render even faster although they may not provide the exact look
Dave> you want.

    Excellent idea... Thanks, Dave!  I'll try this out.

Dave> Another way of doing this is to parent the electron and the
Dave> electron trail objects to a null object and just spin them all
Dave> using the null object...  much easier way of achieving this
Dave> affect.

    Yes, actually, this is the way I am currently doing it, but
am disappointed with the results.  :-(

Dave> With either of these techniques, you'll still need to turn on a
Dave> little motion blur...just enough to smooth things out.

    Yes, I was hoping that motion blur would be the
answer... maybe it is but I've got to change things to make it look
better.  Now it is really a bunch of mush.

                            -- Glenn

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