Pixel Particle

PIXEL PARTICLE

This is a simple particle simulator where types of particles interact based on custom rules.
Particles can attract, repel, orbit around each other, or jitter randomly depending on their relationships.

Inspired by Particle Life and Conway's Game of Life, this simulation is just to look at how emergent behaviour can appear from a simple interaction rule. Plus, it is also just really fun to look at for an extended period of time.

Control:

WASD to move the camera, shift while moving to move faster

Space to reroll the seed

Left-click the "burst" particle away from the mouse (This feature doesn't work if use momentum is off)

Hold Right-click to make the particles orbit around the mouse

Press Enter after setting the seed to apply it

What is seed?

Seed is a string of characters that stores the information of the interaction matrix. So the same seed will give you the same interaction matrix.

What is adjustable?

Use Momentum to determine whether the velocity has lerp applied to it, meaning smoother movement, but due to momentum, it may be more varied due to the extra movement. Some interactions react differently to this.

Wrapped Around just determined whether the bonding wall wrapped around itself or acted as a solid wall.

Enable mutation is an experimental feature that allows the particles to mutate into another existing particle. Clusters will also split if they get too big, and during the split, mutation may happen.

Speed controls the speed of the particles.

Size determines the visual size of the particle, do not that the radius of interaction is not proportional to this.

Amount controls the number of total particles in the simulation.

There are 9 types of particles in this simulation, and each type can be toggled on and off