rouli / particle-life

Game of life with particles

Particle Life

A game of life using particles, instead of cells.

A JavaScript conversion, based on Particle-Life by HackerPoet.

See it in the browser

Todo

• Optimize rendering
  • Perhaps switch from canvas-sketch to a more stable and performant library (or home-grown)
• Further optimize the algorithm.
  • Use fixed-size data structures instead of arrays?
  • Allocate as much during initialization, before rendering.
  • Measure and optimize Universe.step() function.
  • Measure random-js and prob.js performance to ensure it is not a huge bottleneck.
• Add camera logic with zoom and tracking.

Known Bugs

• Rendering performance is currently pretty poor (18-20 fps).
• There's no keymapping for zooming / reset, yet.

Development

Scripts

• start — Start development. Opens browser and enables Hot reloading.
• build — Build distrobution-friendly files.
• format — Format files with prettier.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. If you've found a bug create an issue or even better, a pull request.

Credits

HackerPoet better known as CodeParade, for the original implementation. Check out his YouTube channel.