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tom-mohr/particle-life-app

🦠 Simulator for a particle system showing life-like behaviour. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/tom-mohr/particle-life-app · homepage · Java · GPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

62/100

  • Activity 57
  • Release rhythm 48
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 78
  • age_days: 1667
  • days_rel: 266
  • days_push: 263
  • n_releases_24m: 2

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1018 stars · 97 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

An interactive desktop application that simulates Particle Life, a simple particle system that exhibits complex life-like emergent behavior. It is written in Java, uses parallel processing and space partitioning for performance, and ships as a Windows executable.

Use cases

  • simulate particle life with emergent behavior
  • explore artificial life on my desktop
  • watch life-like patterns emerge from simple particle rules
  • run a fast particle system simulation with many particles
  • experiment with multiagent particle interactions
  • demonstrate emergent complexity to students

When to choose

  • you want a ready-to-run desktop app for Particle Life simulations on Windows
  • you want an open-source simulator you can modify and build from source
  • you need good performance via parallelism and space partitioning

When to avoid

  • you need a library to embed particle simulation in your own code rather than a standalone app
  • you need GPU-accelerated or web-based simulation
  • you require official Linux or macOS installers

Facets

application · maturity active

simulation graphics gui artificial-intelligence simulation desktop-applications windows jvm cross-platform particle-life artificial-life emergent-behavior particle-system multiagent-systems java desktop

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Member repositories

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