I was kind of excited about the upcoming particle tools release, and was trying to do something to "emulate" some of the aspects of the atom sample that Steve Mokris posted by using the current particle tools with a vertex shader (yes, yet again).

I wasn't so much trying to achieve a dead on example... and I was also thinking of memo's "eels" in the back of my mind as far as wanting something that looked kind of thin and curvy with a sort of bezier effect..... so it was kind of a mental blur of those two things that has come out looking like this... it's not really that far off from some of the "exploding" particle stuff I have been messing with lately either.