Virtual Research List - Particle Systems
Jeff Lander
jeffl@darwin3d.com
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Particle systems are an easy concept to grasp and fairly easy to
implement. 

For research, why not start with the original source.  William Reeves while he
was at Lucasfilm created the idea of particle systems.  Here are
the references to the original papers.

Reeves, William T., Blau, Ricki "Approximate and Probabilistic Algorithms
for Shading and Rendering Structured Particle Systems"
Computer Graphics (Proc. Siggraph) Vol. 19, No. 3, July 1985, pp. 313-322

Reeves, William T. "Particle Systems -- A Technique for Modeling a Class 
of Fuzzy Objects" Computer Graphics (Proc. Siggraph) Vol. 17, No. 3, 
July 1983, pp. 359-376


There is also a summary of this info in Watt & Watt, Advanced Animation
(See computer graphic section).