# tom-mohr/particle-life-app

🦠 Simulator for a particle system showing life-like behaviour.

Repository: https://github.com/tom-mohr/particle-life-app
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/particle-life-app
Homepage: http://particle-life.com
Language: Java
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: artificial-life, multiagent-systems, particle-system, java, particle-life
Last push: 2025-12-13T19:37:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 62/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 57, release rhythm 48, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1667, "days_push": 263, "days_rel": 266, "gap_med": 78, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1018, forks 97 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:14.940304+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: simulation, graphics, gui
- domain: artificial-intelligence, simulation, desktop-applications
- platform: windows, jvm, cross-platform
- tags: particle-life, artificial-life, emergent-behavior, particle-system, multiagent-systems, java, desktop

## Member repositories
- tom-mohr/particle-life-app (main) score 62

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.940304+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:09:30.726387+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tom-mohr/particle-life-app (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.940304+00:00, sha da16da4612ed)
  - homepage: http://particle-life.com (fetched 2026-08-29T13:09:53.079507+00:00, sha abed03690dde)
  - site_page: https://particle-life.com/app/installation.html (fetched 2026-08-29T13:09:53.089475+00:00, sha f56ec1139616)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.