Ludum Dare #20compo

City Collision III

by dwrensha

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Watch and control collisions of particle clouds based on data from OpenStreetMap.

(Java Applet. Tested in Safari and Firefox with Java 1.5.)

Comments14

SonnyBone2 May 2011, 08:27

Some type of explanation would be handy.

Yezu2 May 2011, 15:55

This webstart doesn't seem to want to work... Why don't You make an executable jar?

Dan C2 May 2011, 16:16

A curious idea, and it's kind-of interesting to watch the collisions, but the 'control' part seems to be missing. I jabbed at various keys and sometimes something seemed to happen at the beginning of a simulation, but I couldn't tell you what or why.

I don't understand how it fits in with the theme at all.

Kynrael2 May 2011, 16:48

Technically interesting but I don't understand how that fits the theme... Hardly looks like a game really because i don't seem to be able to control anything :/

Kvisle2 May 2011, 20:10

Doesn't work here.

LiquidAsh3 May 2011, 03:26

web version not loading in chrome

TellusE3 May 2011, 21:21

Ditto, not loading in Chrome, does load in Firefox. And... pretty as it is (I get what's going on - city's collide! Muaha! I recognized Manhatten, right?).

Tom 74 May 2011, 00:53

no worky :-(

DeadlyJoe4 May 2011, 07:23

I got it to load in Firefox 4, but couldn't quite figure out how to control it. Pressing space and enter seems delayed, clicking doesn't seem to do anything really, might be due to the size of the datasets you're using. Anyway, fun example of 2D particle collision. However, it does seem slow given the small number of particles. If you use a quadtree or binning approach, you probably could bump it up to 20,000 or 30,000 particles, and with improved collision response. :)

randomnine4 May 2011, 12:46

Couldn't get this to work in IE or Chrome. Sorry.