A particle system engine in Python using OpenGL and OpenCL. (42 Silicon Valley)

You are on macOS with python3 and brew installed.

./setup/setup.sh

• Git clone pyopencl and run configure.py

git clone https://github.com/inducer/pyopencl
cd pyopencl
python3 configure.py

• Edit siteconf.py
  • CL_ENABLE_GL = True
• Pip install

- pip3 install -e .

Initialize with n particles

source setup/env.sh
python3 main.py n

• Tab Select next particle mode.
• G Toggle gravity on/off.
• P Select perspective or orthographic projection.
• Escape Terminate the renderer.

• Page Up Increase sprite size.
• Page Down Decrease sprite size.
• L Toggle particle lifetime decay on/off.
• X Toggle particle size proportional to lifetime.

• Move Mouse Set light source position.
• C Select next color profile.
• T Toggle texture on/off.

• Z Set generator as sphere or cube.
• Left Control + Move Mouse Move generator.
• Left Arrow Move generator toward camera left.
• Right Arrow Move generator toward camera right.
• Down Arrow Move generator toward camera down.
• Up Arrow Move generator toward camera up.
• Home Move generator toward camera back.
• End Move generator toward camera front.

• Left Shift + Move Mouse Rotate camera.
• W Move camera toward camera front.
• S Move camera toward camera back.
• A Move camera toward camera left.
• D Move camera toward camera right.
• Q Move camera toward camera down.
• E Move camera toward camera up.