Swarming particles clustering in 3D space

Three hundred particles swarm in a 3D space looking for similar particles while avoiding others. Links between close particles are created if their color is similar enough, creating particle clusters with shared chromacity. As links are created between particles belonging to different clusters, a 3D structure emerges from the initial randomness.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• particle swarm
• clustering

[virgildog1950]

Very interesting!

What if you had an energy source that particles needed to collect to gain energy, the goal for the particles is to have the most energy as possible, but in order to absorb their harvested energy they would have to be far enough away from the energy source (they can only carry a certain amount of energy with them at a time). The particles should also gain energy when close to other particles that are absorbing energy (heat?). On top of all this, you should add in evolution :)

[Notnasiul]

@virgildog1950 Those are a lot of interesting concepts :D But do you have something in mind?

[xXxAbbeyDawnxXx]

i see sperm

[Notnasiul]

@xXxAbbeyDawnxXx Try washing your face...

[Notnasiul]

Well, they could as well stop rotating, although that's not likely to happen (a stable system is pretty improbable). Even after being linked to other particles, attraction and repulsion forces still work, and that produces movement (rotation).

I know it's just an empirical explanation :)

[Notnasiul]

Just swarming particles using Boids and some linking rules depending on color :)

[wortwechsel]

any explanation why the resulting shape keeps on rotating?

[igytsiycm]

Fantastic. There's a video of them in the Space Station releasing particles which formed similar structures like that of galaxies I've been looking for and came across this. Made in 2008, it's almost prophetic as I believe the experiment I'm thinking of was this year or last year done for the first time.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

Kinda looks like a 3d neural net

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

also often times random initial speed/direction can cause an averaging that results in s small amount of rotation.

Or like you said, differential attraction forces between particles.

[fabianonline]

Very cool... empirical is good too =)

The almost stable rotation was a pretty cool result! It may be considered a stable sistem if you counter the stochastic in the processes isn´t that right ? Or even add the rule that connected does not affect connected

Write an Article =D