Newton Field: ANM 302 - Week 2

Let me reinterate what I said in my first post on ANM 302:  I LOVE PARTICLES!!! So now, we've moved on from emitting particles (which kind of sounds like a social faux pas) to affecting them. This week we're working with Newton Fields. And that's Newton as in Sir Isaac Newton, the guy who discovered gravity. Said fields are named after him due to the fact that they simulate a gravity well using his now famous equation of universal gravitation...and if you don't know it, you should. Anway, the Newton Fields in Maya act on emitted particles like gravity does on us. It pulls them, and when you link the emitter to an object, that object can be made to appear to be the most important think in the universe to those particles which seem to be chasing it. Here are an enormous number of possibilities this opens up, from schools of swimming fish, to flocks of birds, to anything you can think of. Now, of course, I'm going to have to think of something cool to do with this...