This effect was a happy accident that came out of my experiementing with making a stipple effect using instanced force fields in TouchDesigner. I think there's a lot more that can be done with this technique so I thought I'd share!
Other things you might learn in this tutorial:
Particle Instancing
Force Field Textures
Smooth Normalizing Textures
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Chapters
0:00 - Intro and Variables
1:35 - Particle Textures
2:45 - Force Calculation Network
4:08 - Force Field Texture
11:00 - Particle + Force
12:50 - Field Size Texture
15:55 - Tweaks
17:09 - Stippling
19:13 - Post Processing
22:25 - Outro