ABSTRACT

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

—Oscar Wilde

Color is like dynamite: It must be handled carefully. If used thoughtfully, color will clarify and reveal your designs’ forms and internal meanings. If used carelessly, it will undermine and collapse the design composition by diverting the visitor’s eye and fracture the underlying harmony of form and pattern. That said, sometimes as a designer, you do want visual pandemonium. If you really want to blow things up, particle systems will create the resultant dust clouds, as well as rain, snow, fire, hair, fur, and many other “fuzzy” chaos-based events in a virtual environment [1].