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Hey people, I built this particle simulator in ~500 lines of self-contained HTML/JS/WebGL2. It's designed to encourage creativity and exploration. You can just
by hut0 6y ago
Hey people, I built this particle simulator in ~500 lines of self-contained HTML/JS/WebGL2.
It's designed to encourage creativity and exploration. You can just download one of those universes and open up the HTML file in a text editor to tweak the physical laws and constants. Then open it up in your browser to see the result immediately.
I had a lot of fun exploring the beautiful emergent behaviors that arise from those simple rules, give it a try too! There's plenty of documentation and you don't need to be a programming wizard. :)
The most interesting universes I came up with are on display here: https://exophysics.net/exhibition.html https://exophysics.net/exhibition.html
- trungdq88 6y agoThis is pretty fun, I like it, will take a look at the code later today. > Finally, I am legally obliged to inform you of the one law of exophysics: > YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TERMINATE A SIMULATION IMMEDIATELY UPON FINDING > EVIDENCE OF THE EMERGENCE OF SENTIENT CREATURES CAPABLE OF SUFFERING. LOL, I had to google "law of exophysics" to see if it is real.
- swyx 6y agoI mean.. arguably... if the sentient creatures have emerged then is it ethical to kill them?
- tetris11 6y agoWell, factor in a slow extinction event and let it run for a few billion ticks. That way they have ample warning, and they might have even offed themselves within that timeframe.
- hut0 6y agoTrue, but that law was established to discourage any research in that domain, reducing the overall occurences of sentience-incidents and the resulting messy philosophical questions.
- mrpf1ster 6y agoI love the emphasis on user exploration. And your way of writing the documentation is very welcoming. Awesome tool.
- hut0 6y agoThank you :)!
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- andai 6y agoNice, this is really fun to play with! I messed around with something similar a few years ago, based on (the code in) this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_zmZ23grXE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_zmZ23grXE Edit: Apparently there are a lot of these! This variant is also pretty cool (smaller particles, more like "fields"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5aDIEoBk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5aDIEoBk0
- hut0 6y agoSweet, thank you for the links! I'll surely learn something from what they've been doing :)
- hut0 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=makaJpLvbow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=makaJpLvbow <- this one is pretty awesome too. A very simple rule and quite the complex behavior. Though I'd recommend watching it at 175% speed, muted, and perhaps with the 1812 Overture as the background music.
- morphle 6y agoI like this programming languages made for particle/fields [1,2,3] Yoshiki Ohshima also made the particle/fields simulator in Squeak/Etoys that Alan Kay demos is his talks [5] and was a scientist at Alan Kay's VPRI [4]. [1] http://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/shadama2/ http://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/shadama2/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/user/yoshikiohshima/search?query=shadama https://www.youtube.com/user/yoshikiohshima/search?query=sha... [3] http://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/shadama2/live2017/#kedama http://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/shadama2/live2017/#kedama [4] http://www.vpri.org/writings.php http://www.vpri.org/writings.php [5] https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay
- hut0 6y agoWasn't aware of this project, thanks for the links!