Particles stage1
I am beginning to become more and more fascinated by particles, particle systems, physics and artificial life/intelligence algorithms. To cut a long story short I wish I knew what Keith Peters does. Following on from a tutorial he wrote in the Friends of Ed book New Masters of Flash Vol3 I have been doing my initial experiments in to particle systems starting with a basic AS2 class. Once I’ve experimented with this some more and added some cool features to it I am hoping to port the class over to AS3 and then have fun on an even larger scale.
Ideally I want to add collision detection between the particles so they do not collide with one-another, experiment with flock behavior/boids, attraction, repulsion and dynamic behavior. The flash experiment above is my initial foray in to the world of the particle!