IPSYS - Particle system with nice random laws in C & OpenGL

2024-03-06

Visualizer of a particle system with randomized interaction laws that often happen to be quite mesmerizing to contemplate. Fast, colorful and somewhat intresting.

GitHub repository

Features

  • Particle system that runs on the GPU in a compute shader.
  • Different particle types, the number of which is decided at launch time.
  • Interaction laws for each oriented pair of particle types:
    • The interaction laws depend on the distance between the interactee and the interacter particles.
    • There are multiple laws for each oridented pair:
      • A law that dictates attraction/repultion,
      • a law that dictates rotation to the left/right, and
      • a law that dictates acceleration/deceleration.
  • Interaction law randomizer, carefully tweaked to maximize “intresting” results occurences.
  • Randomized colors for each partcile type, color changing with speed and pressure (number of overlaping other particles).
  • Fading effect that leaves a tail behind particles
  • Saving/loading to/from disk laws, colors and state, written in a custom file format.
  • Grounds for a widget tree that is actually be maintainable in C.

A few gifs

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Gallery

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Tags: #C #OpenGL