Re: [pygame] looking for a particle/billiard ball engine

["Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Toni Alatalo wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 January 2006 20:49, Miles Van Pelt wrote:
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> > I'm looking to experiment with some simple emergent behavior ideas. Does
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> do tell if/when you find something more fitting for you. dunno if scipy or 
> vpython would have anything. some people are also using Blender Python for 
> visualizing biological growth simulations, and also it has have pretty cool 
> physics systems in the game engine now (like Bullet), but would probably not 
> be the thing for you .. other game engines are perhaps more straightforward 
> to program and have similar physics support too (i mean things like ode that 
> you can use with pygame with pyode too, dunno if it gives anything you need 
> tho)
>  
I missed the original query, but ODE (Open Dynamics Engine) is possibly 
a useful avenue to explore.  It's a simulation-focused package (i.e. it 
runs on models, not graphics primitives) that gives collisions and the 
like.  I believe in the past that people (Arthur, of edu-python list 
IIRC) have hooked it up to PyOpenGL and VPython to generate graphics.

HTH,
Mike

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