Flexi23

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   by Flexi23 13y ago

   1024x512 = 524288, that's over half a million and they're all visible. So far, they don't carry more individual properties than a position and a motion vector, but i could easily imagine to add another texture for that, and a
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   by Flexi23 13y ago

   thanks man, and yes. I had already 2 or 3 years experience with the different scriptable elements and partial differential equations in Milkdrop when they introduced the shader editors in the 2007 Winamp5.5 release. There were several origi
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   by Flexi23 13y ago

   I'm the original author of this little WebGL experiment and i want to try to answer some questions that came up here. 1) implementation there's quite some boilerplate in JS to set up all the textures and the main animation loop, b
4. 4.▲
   by Flexi23 13y ago

   it's not Barnes-Hut, but good tip!
5. 5.▲
   by Flexi23 13y ago

   half a million particles are rendered to a texture, which is then blurred, and the gradients are used to update the velocity of the particles in a feedback loop. There's no direct interaction between individual particles. There are two