[HN Gopher] Life-like particle system
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Life-like particle system
Author : NonZeroSumJames
Score : 193 points
Date : 2024-05-09 21:47 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (ventrella.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (ventrella.com)
| lawlessone wrote:
| Looks a lot like how imagine atom nuclei to behave if really
| slowed down.
| jasonjmcghee wrote:
| The original! (I believe)
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| There have been some cool / highly optimized implementations of
| this, now colloquially referred to as "particle life"
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| https://particle-life.com/
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| https://hunar4321.github.io/particle-life/
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| This is a popular project and fun to implement- just search for
| "particle life".
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| I also took a crack at this when playing with compute shaders in
| Godot, if you are interested in a very simple implementation.
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| Under the folder "Life" https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/compute-
| shaders
| ricardobeat wrote:
| The project you linked to has this in the readme:
| This project was inspired by: Jeffery Ventrella's Clusters
| http://www.ventrella.com/Clusters/
|
| So it looks like this submission is the original.
| ChrisClark wrote:
| He's saying this post is the original, and then pointing to
| some more projects inspired by it
| jasonjmcghee wrote:
| Indeed - I see the ambiguity in the language I chose.
|
| Yes I was trying to communicate, from my understanding, the
| main post here is the original work, but it has inspired a
| bunch of projects since then.
| krunck wrote:
| Great. There goes my productivity this morning.
| ForOldHack wrote:
| Mine is gone too.
| tines wrote:
| Is there an overview of the rules of the game somewhere?
| Mizza wrote:
| Damn, this is cool. It pretty quickly developed cells, the light
| blue particles acting as a cell wall for the red and blue ones.
| ForOldHack wrote:
| Thank you, this is cool. It pretty quickly turned all the fans
| on my GPU to Max, and was quite ascetically pleasing.
| knowaveragejoe wrote:
| This is apparently related to Leap Motion. Whatever happened to
| that?
| michelb wrote:
| It was acquired by Ultraleap, that still sells the products. I
| don't how it performs against hand-tracking in camera nowadays.
| hodder wrote:
| Cool project.
| avsteele wrote:
| If you enjoy watching colorful balls fly around you may also
| enjoy:
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| https://www.zerok.com/demo/
|
| This is a little toy model of what goes on inside our ion source,
| laser cooling + photoionization. I use it in talks sometimes. The
| colormap is red=hot, blue=cold, white=ions
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| Love it! I want more
| jzting wrote:
| If you like particles, you may enjoy this generative art project
| I made last year: https://www.artblocks.io/project/424
| euparkeria wrote:
| I love gene pool, another program made by this guy.
| gramie wrote:
| Has there ever been a successor to the particles + algorithmic
| music program Clusterworks? I used to spend hours just watching
| it and changing the movements and music with my mouse.
| imbusy111 wrote:
| One I made some 10+ years ago:
| https://imbusy.org/files/circles.html
| smusamashah wrote:
| I remember playing with the same author's other project Gene Pool
| a lot many years ago. It was fun seeing creatures evolve, survive
| and die.
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| https://www.swimbots.com/genepool/
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