The Powder Toy

plypencil

I don't know when simon started work on it, the game is open source, anyone can download and modify and recompile the source.

The original owner just left the program to rot :(

AmpedExport

I too was one of the old players who has only just found this site!

lolzy

I had TPT for like a year but i only found the website like a month ago.

vsams14

[plypencil]
the original pt is open source? I believe we talked about this, but I never found the source code for it.

ssc4k

Well somehow AMD got the source and made the physics system work on opencl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PAiCinmP9Y&feature=player_embedded . Imagine if we could do that now.

Simon

ssc4k
AMD Didn't make any modifications (Except the screen size) they were demoing some technology that allowed scaling of single-threaded applications across multiple processing cores.

kamikai

take a look at this PTers, if you like physics (or not) just look...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcdKHA6f7qM

it blew my mind just from the first bit of video.

I'm sorry Simon, but the PT or even cake don't compare in terms of simulating physics like this. However i wonder how that's processed, if the PT slows down with a full screen of elements on a 2d plane, how would something like that smoothly visualize what looks like millions of particles incorporated with friction and gravity in a 3d environment? or do they have one super computer dedicated just to simulating it?

savask

I think they have a super-computer

It's for visual effects not for playing at home, so big companies can rent a super-computer for a year or two, to render their film or to simulate big amount of water.

triclops200

lol, no I heard a little about this, The physics can be done real time but the rendering takes a long time, kind-of like rendering with any other program

savask

Simulation of big number of particles and especially water, takes a lot of time, and can't be simulated in real time on a usual comp.

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