Life-like particle system

https://ventrella.com/Clusters/

by NonZeroSumJames • 2 years ago

285 24 2 years ago

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lawlessone• 2 years ago

Looks a lot like how imagine atom nuclei to behave if really slowed down.

jasonjmcghee2• 2 years ago

The original! (I believe)

There have been some cool / highly optimized implementations of this, now colloquially referred to as "particle life"

https://particle-life.com/

https://hunar4321.github.io/particle-life/

This is a popular project and fun to implement- just search for "particle life".

I also took a crack at this when playing with compute shaders in Godot, if you are interested in a very simple implementation.

Under the folder "Life" https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/compute-shaders

ricardobeat• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

He's saying this post is the original, and then pointing to some more projects inspired by it

krunck• 2 years ago

Great. There goes my productivity this morning.

ForOldHack2• 2 years ago

Mine is gone too.

tines• 2 years ago

Is there an overview of the rules of the game somewhere?

Mizza• 2 years ago

Damn, this is cool. It pretty quickly developed cells, the light blue particles acting as a cell wall for the red and blue ones.

ForOldHack2• 2 years ago

Thank you, this is cool. It pretty quickly turned all the fans on my GPU to Max, and was quite ascetically pleasing.

denton-scratch• 2 years ago

quite ascetically pleasing.

If you get your kicks from material deprivation, I suppose.

knowaveragejoe• 2 years ago

This is apparently related to Leap Motion. Whatever happened to that?

michelb• 2 years ago

It was acquired by Ultraleap, that still sells the products. I don't how it performs against hand-tracking in camera nowadays.

hodder• 2 years ago

Cool project.

avsteele• 2 years ago

If you enjoy watching colorful balls fly around you may also enjoy:

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• 2 years ago

Love it! I want more

jzting• 2 years ago

If you like particles, you may enjoy this generative art project I made last year: https://www.artblocks.io/project/424

swayvil2• 2 years ago

If you hate particles, here's a generative thing I did

https://www.fleen.org/old_generative_art_projects/powerbox_4...

euparkeria• 2 years ago

I love gene pool, another program made by this guy.

gramie• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

One I made some 10+ years ago: https://imbusy.org/files/circles.html

smusamashah• 2 years ago

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.

https://www.swimbots.com/genepool/

thriftwy• 2 years ago

I wonder what would Langton's ant do on aperiodic hat monotile...

swayvil2• 2 years ago

Self organization always impresses me.

Check out smoothlife. It's on YouTube somewhere.

In the notes the creator discusses abandoning the project because of the soul-consuming effects of working on it all the time. Word to the wise.

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