Particle System Toolbox

Graphically simulate the interactions of particles, springs, and attractions in a particle system.

Description

Did you ever wonder, how they do the simulation of all that snow, rain, dust, smoke, and fire in modern computer games? How they model bullets, ropes, curtains and solar systems?

With this particle system toolbox you can easily create particles, attractions, and springs in a particle system environment with gravity and drag and graphically simulate their interactions with just a few lines of code. Run one of the 12 demos and read the detailed documentation at

http://buchholz.hs-bremen.de/particles/particles_2_1.pdf
(pw: dummy)

Have fun...

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)
• Other requirements: If you want to enjoy "real-time", your cpu and gpu should be of this century; object orientated programming in Matlab is not really the fastest lane on the particle system highway... ;-)

[John D'Errico]

Complex, but absolutely splendid!

My only thought was a minor one. I'd have liked to see the pdf documentation already be included in the zip file itself. It is something that any user will want to read and keep around, so why make the user download it separately, then move it into the particles directory to keep it around?

[Joerg Buchholz]

John, seems like I'm a little antediluvian regarding file size. I just can't get rid of that feeling that there are still some 56k-modem users out there in Matlab Country, hating to download "large" files for just a sneak preview... ;-)

[Shawn Harrison]

So, what is the password to read the pdf documentation??

Seems silly to password protect the documentation.

[Joerg Buchholz]

It is a very long story, why I had to do that ...

The password is: dummy

[Namhee Kim]

 

[Prashant Pawar]

I am getting following error

??? Error: File: particle_system.m Line: 1 Column: 10
A class definition must be in an "@" directory.

Error in ==> demo_1 at 23
Particle_System = particle_system

Can you plz help me about avoiding the error.

[Joerg Buchholz]

@ Prashant Pawar: The Mathworks augmented the Matlab object model in R2008a. Therefore you have to use a version equal or higher than that for the PSTB 2.x. The error indicates that you use an older version of Matlab. I will send you a 1.0 version of the PSTB that sholud work with your Matlab via e-mail .

[Prashant Pawar]

thank you

[Andrew Bolt]

 

[Roberto Gallea]

Great work! I suggest to improve it by allowing the particles to be fixed in a desired direction (x, y, z or arbitrary).

In addition, I ported this framework in C/C++, if someone is interested please let me know.