[HN Gopher] Relax while watching bouncing particles making conne...
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Relax while watching bouncing particles making connections when
they get closer
Author : tikili
Score : 128 points
Date : 2025-01-06 16:27 UTC (3 days ago)
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| gus_massa wrote:
| Nice. Have you tried a version where the particles have a small
| atraction/repulsion? (Bonus points for a bar to choose the
| force.) (1/r^2? can I choose the exponent?)
| hnuser123456 wrote:
| This is a very slippery slope towards making a full blown 3d
| three.js octree based n-body gravity simulation, at least for
| me :)
| dylan604 wrote:
| it doesn't have to be 3d though. another idea would be to
| assign mass values to the particles and see if after an
| amount of time if everything settles down to some sort of
| orbital track around each other. but either idea moves it
| from being a relaxing visual into a bit of sciencey simulator
| that totally changes to the scope of the project
| dylan604 wrote:
| I was expecting a +/- charge interaction like this as well, but
| that was just based on my brain's default interpretation of the
| word particle in the title with this being HN and all. It took
| a second for my brain to switch to just a visual fx particle
| system use of the word.
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| Nonetheless, my default thoughts do not take away from it being
| a fun visual to zone out to for a bit
| ddawson wrote:
| I feel like that's what's happening to my neurons when I'm
| browsing Reddit. And Hacker News.
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| Need DVD version
| grues-dinner wrote:
| Nice. Reminds me strongly of levitated.net (sadly broken due to
| no Flash) and complexification.net (sadly broken due to no Java).
|
| Geeking out over Jared Tarbell over dial up basically got me into
| computers in the first place.
| leeoniya wrote:
| there is a website on the internet that has this in the banner or
| background, but i cannot remember what it was.
| deadbabe wrote:
| What if you incorporate game of life type rules into this?
| someoneontenet wrote:
| Neat, I've also made something like this with processing
| https://robw.fyi/constellation.html
| hashishen wrote:
| this is great nice work
| mjstone wrote:
| Reminds me of the Ex Machina end credits [1] (and the Android
| live wallpaper I made as a homage to it [2].)
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| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRJ-fPAO3Go [2]
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.figmentano...
| stackedinserter wrote:
| I can't relax, the fact that connections don't affect their
| speed/direction infuriates me.
| stavros wrote:
| I didn't think I'd care, but I had the same reaction.
| airstrike wrote:
| Made a version with charged particles. Probably bad physics all
| around, but here it is: https://shorturl.at/ocvEO
| BlueTemplar wrote:
| It doesn't take much to get decent physics :
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| https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/questions/9541/lenn...
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| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennard-Jones_potential
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| With the right parameters you get to see the solid and fluid
| phases of matter !
| dtgriscom wrote:
| What? No bonding?
| bouncybouncycat wrote:
| It seems to me that it is inevitable: every programmer goes
| through a phase where they do a bounded billiard ball simulation.
| It's like a right of passage.
| devin wrote:
| rite* of passage
| jhncls wrote:
| A "wright of passage", a "craftsperson of passage", someone
| who facilitates or creates transitions -- like a metaphorical
| bridge-builder
| kaeruct wrote:
| I'd like to share mine as well. There's a bit of more interaction
| between particles but I don't remember the exact logic. Code
| should be easy to read: https://kaeruct.github.io/projects/short-
| experiments/dots/
| biomcgary wrote:
| Agglomerative clustering
| nhecker wrote:
| I like this.
| deskr wrote:
| That's pretty cool. It just needs a orange one popping up after
| a while, captioned "Let's make particles great again!". Then
| about half flock to the orange one. Then show the natzional
| flag and play patriotic song.
| taco_emoji wrote:
| c'mon, man
| IceDane wrote:
| You alright there, buddy? I think some grass touching might
| be in order.
| ides_dev wrote:
| I like how some of the particles get thrown out of the cluster
| on wider elliptical orbits, they look like comets.
| voiper1 wrote:
| Cute. First thing I did though was to see if moving my mouse or
| clicking affected it. Doesn't seem to, please add that!
| 65 wrote:
| This would make the perfect hero background to my portfolio site!
| alentred wrote:
| That... is... mesmerizing... ... ... f d ? _ # 0 8 v l p f d ? _
| # 0 8 v l p
|
| Thank you. I wonder if I could use it for meditation. If only it
| would not require a blue screen.
| polishdude20 wrote:
| I'd love to see the connection line come from both particles and
| join between them! Ooo and also if they can like start with
| random colors and slowly as they meet their colors average out
| christina97 wrote:
| Having a hero background that was a variation of this was really
| popular about 10 years ago or so. You'll still find them on
| plenty of websites built around that time.
| duskwuff wrote:
| It's still extremely common in web site templates for
| cryptocurrency and AI companies. Sure, it's cliche as all hell,
| but that doesn't stop people from using it.
| Zaskoda wrote:
| This is a lot like how I imagine a mesh net with mobile nodes
| working.
| chkas wrote:
| Hello author here. I'm a little surprised to see this on the
| front page of Hacker News. This is just a simple demo for my
| educational programming language Easylang. You can easily edit
| the code and increase the particle count for example. In the IDE
| you can then create a link with the code embedded in the URL.
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| https://tiki.li/run/#cod=dVLNbsIwDL7nKT5p0gRDdEGMA9PYM+yO0FT...
| chkas wrote:
| https://easylang.online
| skygazer wrote:
| Well, that looks suspiciously like caustics in and around a
| swimming pool on a sunny day.
| junon wrote:
| Would love to see this with boids simulations :D
| ausbah wrote:
| curious what do ppl usually use to make these animations? i've
| used pillow with python in the pass but that only really works
| with images and seems clunky
| hotpocket777 wrote:
| https://tiki.li/
| youainti wrote:
| This made me realize how much I miss screensavers. I used to sit
| and just stare at them meditatively as a teen.
| grues-dinner wrote:
| I think I learned more about chaos theory by hacking a first
| person Rossler attractor "rider" into xscreensaver (instead of
| the usual Lorenz attractor) than by any other thing.
| ykonstant wrote:
| Also the cool effects in music players.
| greatNespresso wrote:
| Hypnotizing. Watching this with Beanie playing in the background.
| Mate that feels good
| tempestn wrote:
| Anyone else's brain find this... I guess stressful, rather than
| relaxing? Something about them connecting but never hanging on,
| and the bits never all coming together, I think.
| dotancohen wrote:
| Rather like connections in life maybe.
|
| All I see is blonde, redhead...
| Recursing wrote:
| See https://bleuje.com/animationsite/2024_1/ for a collection of
| programmatic black and white animations made with
| https://processing.org/
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| He publishes the source code on
| https://github.com/Bleuje/processing-animations-code/tree/ma...
| bitwize wrote:
| Neat!
|
| I wrote a "game jam fail" game involving pulsating blue "cells"
| that cluster together and form attacking aliens:
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| https://github.com/bitwize/cosmic-sweep
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