hunar4321 / particle-life

A simple program to simulate artificial life using attraction/reuplsion forces between many particles

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Various enhancements #23

Closed skal65535 closed 1 year ago

skal65535 commented 1 year ago

use a seed-able random generator
put the seed as param in the URL, for reproducibility
add a 'repulsing pulse' under mouse when it's clicked
record the FPS
display some parameters on-screen when using the 'f' key as toggle
add various key commands:
- '[' and ']' controls the time-scale
- 'o' will randomize the particles' position
- 'p' will add some particles
- 'r' to use random new rules
- 'm' to print the rules matrix
- 's' to symmetrize the rules
- '1' and '2' to control the cut-off for interaction (??)

skal65535 commented 1 year ago

Hi!

here are some enhancements i found useful on my local version. Not sure if you can use them (even partly), but here they are! That was a fun to toy around with the initial code, thanks for that!

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hunar4321 commented 1 year ago

Thanks! the default rule you put is very interesting! I didn't expect JavaScript to get this far. It may top-up the C++ version at some point :)

skal65535 commented 1 year ago

Indeed, some rules get interesting even with only four types. For instance:

25235386572586 => 3-color 'spinners' with red missiles cruising !

59229248068973 => same, but with 'pulsars' instead of spinners

103450573061445 => some unstable 'cells' over an hex substrate

fun!