[I shared this on the Softimage Mailing List the other day and thought it was worth posting here.]

Here’s a fun trick for parsing an ICE string attribute, identifying the letters and typing out the text with particles:

Download the sample scene here and read more about it below. (Soft 2011+ required.)

Taking this knowledge we can also do variations on the concept like turning a string into an array of booleans, for example:

Let me know in the comments if you make anything cool with this technique. 🙂