[HN Gopher] HTML5-based physics simulation for building and anim...
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       HTML5-based physics simulation for building and animating springy
       creations
        
       Author : xdze2
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2022-04-02 12:26 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (peterfidelman.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (peterfidelman.github.io)
        
       | blenderdt wrote:
       | Nice, a clone of Soda Constructor!
       | 
       | I once went to a talk by the creator, Ed Burton. His message at
       | the time was that you should not be afraid that people will use
       | your product totally different than you intended. I can't
       | remember his intentions, but they were very different and he was
       | amazed by how people started to use it and what they created with
       | it.
       | 
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Constructor
        
         | witherk wrote:
         | Man I completely forgot playing with these in elementary
         | school. One of the coolest things on that era of the internet.
        
         | rzzzt wrote:
         | Aaah, Springs World 3D is mentioned in the links section at the
         | bottom. I spent tons of time watching the
         | rolling/walking/bouncing contraptions.
        
         | Nicksil wrote:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Constructor
        
       | s1mon wrote:
       | I don't know what might have come before it, but Xspringies [0]
       | was my first exposure to something like this. Must have been late
       | 80's early 90's.
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       | [0] https://github.com/dharmatech/agave#springies
        
       | andai wrote:
       | Awesome :) Iirc there was a kickstarter to port SodaPlay to HTML5
       | in 2015 but it failed. I've been meaning to make my own port,
       | it's great to see this here!
       | 
       | I wonder, does this accurately simulate the original physics? My
       | own attempts at ended up with a slightly different feel to the
       | physics.
        
       | memalign wrote:
       | Here's the source code:
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       | https://github.com/OpenConstructor/OpenConstructor
        
       | agys wrote:
       | Sodaplay! That brings up fond memories... The original page was a
       | good example of an early (highly-) interactive playground. Some
       | of the user-contributed constructions/creatures were simply
       | amazing.
        
       | moralestapia wrote:
       | Hey, what a nice memory! I recall playing this for a while
       | waaaayyy back.
        
       | greggman3 wrote:
       | Sodaplay was an inspiration for LocoRoco
        
       | sodaplayer wrote:
       | Oh wow, this is awesome! As you can see by my username, this was
       | influential enough to me as a kid that I named my online presence
       | after it. My whole 6th grade class got into it--particularly
       | making Line-Rider-equse roller coasters with the beta version.
       | 
       | It was really fun being able to immediately load something from
       | the "zoo", and reverse engineer how the mechanisms worked, and
       | try to implement it yourself.
        
       | atum47 wrote:
       | I've pushed some minor css that will prevent from select text
       | when dragging points around
        
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