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HTML5-based physics simulation for building and animating springy creations
- agys 5y agoSodaplay! 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.
- sodaplayer 5y agoOh 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.
- blenderdt 5y agoNice, 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 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Constructor
- witherk 5y agoMan I completely forgot playing with these in elementary school. One of the coolest things on that era of the internet.
- rzzzt 5y agoAaah, Springs World 3D is mentioned in the links section at the bottom. I spent tons of time watching the rolling/walking/bouncing contraptions.
- Nicksil 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Constructor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Constructor
- greggman3 5y agoSodaplay was an inspiration for LocoRoco
- moralestapia 5y agoHey, what a nice memory! I recall playing this for a while waaaayyy back.
- atum47 5y agoI've pushed some minor css that will prevent from select text when dragging points around
- andai 5y agoAwesome :) 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 5y agoHere’s the source code: https://github.com/OpenConstructor/OpenConstructor https://github.com/OpenConstructor/OpenConstructor
- s1mon 5y agoI 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. [0] https://github.com/dharmatech/agave#springies https://github.com/dharmatech/agave#springies
- tectonic 5y agoIn 2000, I went to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a CS project inspired by sodaplay, but which let the creatures mate and mutate to evolve locomotion over time. Super cool to see it updated to run on the web!