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Particle Systems
Topic		Author	Description
	A Simple Point Sprite Based Particle Engine [Added: 10/6/2003]	Almar Joling	Describes how to create a particle system using point sprites in DirectX and Visual Basic.
	Advanced Particle Systems [Added: 6/7/2000]	John van der Burg	Describes the data structures needed to create a self-contained, advanced 3D particle system.
	Designing an Extensible Particle System using C++ and Templates [Added: 8/19/2003]	Kent "_dot_" Lai	This article will bring to your attention some decisions you have to make while designing your own particle system, as well as introduce to you an extensible, possibly robust design.
	Particle Chamber [Added: 6/7/2000]	Richard Benson	Well-commented source code for a particle system demo in Direct3D.
	Particle System API [Added: 1/12/2001]	David McAllister	Probably the best tool around for understanding and creating particle systems.

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