Field notes
Accessible guides to the rules, tuning choices, and scientific ideas behind lifelike particle worlds.
Meet the attraction and repulsion rules that turn colored dots into clusters, streams, and primitive-looking organisms. This introduction also traces the idea from Jeffrey Ventrella's Clusters to the modern Particle Life system.
Read the beginner's guideLearn what particle types, the attraction matrix, friction, and interaction radius actually change. Concrete recipes help you build stable colonies, chase patterns, or controlled chaos.
Open the tuning guidePlace Particle Life beside Conway's Game of Life, Boids, and other classic simulations. See how local rules create global order and why researchers use simple digital worlds to study complexity.
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