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lawlessone
Looks a lot like how imagine atom nuclei to behave if really slowed down.
jasonjmcghee
The original! (I believe)

There have been some cool / highly optimized implementations of this, now colloquially referred to as "particle life"

https://particle-life.com/

https://hunar4321.github.io/particle-life/

This is a popular project and fun to implement- just search for "particle life".

I also took a crack at this when playing with compute shaders in Godot, if you are interested in a very simple implementation.

Under the folder "Life" https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/compute-shaders

ricardobeat
The project you linked to has this in the readme:

    This project was inspired by: Jeffery Ventrella’s Clusters http://www.ventrella.com/Clusters/
So it looks like this submission is the original.
ChrisClark
He's saying this post is the original, and then pointing to some more projects inspired by it
jasonjmcghee
Indeed - I see the ambiguity in the language I chose.

Yes I was trying to communicate, from my understanding, the main post here is the original work, but it has inspired a bunch of projects since then.

krunck
Great. There goes my productivity this morning.
tines
Is there an overview of the rules of the game somewhere?
Mizza
Damn, this is cool. It pretty quickly developed cells, the light blue particles acting as a cell wall for the red and blue ones.
ForOldHack
Thank you, this is cool. It pretty quickly turned all the fans on my GPU to Max, and was quite ascetically pleasing.
denton-scratch
> quite ascetically pleasing.

If you get your kicks from material deprivation, I suppose.

knowaveragejoe
This is apparently related to Leap Motion. Whatever happened to that?
michelb
It was acquired by Ultraleap, that still sells the products. I don't how it performs against hand-tracking in camera nowadays.
avsteele
If you enjoy watching colorful balls fly around you may also enjoy:

https://www.zerok.com/demo/

This is a little toy model of what goes on inside our ion source, laser cooling + photoionization. I use it in talks sometimes. The colormap is red=hot, blue=cold, white=ions

euparkeria
I love gene pool, another program made by this guy.
gramie
Has there ever been a successor to the particles + algorithmic music program Clusterworks? I used to spend hours just watching it and changing the movements and music with my mouse.
thriftwy
I wonder what would Langton's ant do on aperiodic hat monotile...
swayvil
Self organization always impresses me.

Check out smoothlife. It's on YouTube somewhere.

In the notes the creator discusses abandoning the project because of the soul-consuming effects of working on it all the time. Word to the wise.