I recreated Jeffery Ventrella's "Particle Life"
This weekend's coding session was dedicated to recreating Jeffery Ventrella's "Particle Life". As you can imagine, I had a lot of fun with it. I recently saw this here on Hacker News and found it strange that I’d never come across it before. Source code: https://github.com/vnglst/particle-life The color palette is by Alex Cristache. https://twitter.com/AlexCristache/status/1791122643816431930
In plain words
This is a recreation of Jeffery Ventrella's "Particle Life" simulation, a generative system where colored particles interact based on attraction and repulsion rules. Built as a weekend coding project, it simulates emergent behavior and complex patterns from simple particle interactions. The tool is for developers and anyone interested in artificial life, cellular automata, or visual simulations. Source code is available on GitHub, and the color palette was designed by Alex Cristache.
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