Implementation of Particle Life in Rust using SDL2 for graphics.
The simulation should be framerate independent, but "large jumps" on low fps may lead to different behaviour
The simulation almost works like a normal planet simulation. The particles attract each other with a force of 1/d² and a small amount of drag.
The attraction is directional, controlled by a grid of coefficients:
For example, yellow might attract red, but red might repel yellow and green.
Green could attract both, but repelling other green particles.
Yellow is neutral to green.
A small attractive force exists for red/yellow particles to their own kind.
This might sound like some of these "logic riddles", but it's quite easy to understand when expressed in a table like this:
| yellow | red | green | |
|---|---|---|---|
| yellow | 0.5 | 1 | 1 |
| red | -1 | 0.5 | -1 |
| green | 1 | 1 | -1 |
0: neutral, 1: column is attracted by row, -1: column is repelled by row
These simple rules give life to a variety of small creatures, moving around the toroidal world (a world where top/bottom and left/right are connected).
These values are randomly generated via a seed.
The images in this README use 7 particle types with random coefficients ranging -1 to 1 and a particle count of 5000 in a 800x600 world (same as screen size)
cargo run --release [-- seed]
(seed can be any string)
23212C8C(13 colors, 10000 particles)
Up/Downslower/faster tick ratePtoggle followingSpacepause/unpause
Unix should be able to install SDL2 more easily
Download each the *-2.6.2-VC.zip from
SDL and
SDL_ttf
respectively and add each lib/x64 to the LIB environment variable.
Copy SDL2.dll and SDL2_ttf.dll into the root of your project (already done).
If necessary replace with a version compatible to your download.
SDL2_gfx.dll got acquired from this Google Drive
SDL2_gfx.lib was built manually for windows x64 and is in local files instead of on PATH so you don't have to.
