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It's a wonderful thing: a toy, not a game. A game has a goal. Here you are free to experiment without being led or nudged. In the world of computer-based entertainment, it is refreshing.
I recommend exploring the top-right link and poking around this person's site. It felt like an old flash website and took me back a couple decades.
Fun fact: if you zoom out a ton, place the bubble machine at the outside edge, and then zoom back in to standard, you get a crap ton of bubbles very quickly
You also get completely glitched bubbles, [briefly] self-intersecting bubbles, and bubbles within other bubbles depending on how you position stuff!
More of their amazing work here: https://oimo.io/works Also they appear to be a student?
Fun fact: if you zoom out a ton, place the bubble machine at the outside edge, and then zoom back in to standard, you get a crap ton of bubbles very quickly
I absolutely love this and am curious about the technical details behind simulating soap bubbles like this (it looks like the code isn't available). Does anyone know what algorithm is being used?
https://github.com/saharan/OimoPhysics
I absolutely love this and am curious about the technical details behind simulating soap bubbles like this (it looks like the code isn't available). Does anyone know what algorithm is being used?
Looks like a little bit of Voronoi patterns when the bubbles connect? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram
It's more likely IMO that the Voronoi pattern emerges from the constraints of the simulation.
Thought this was using three.js, but they built their own physics engine: https://github.com/saharan/OimoPhysics
Also, I don't believe that the bubble toy is related to their physics engine; it seems like a different type of physics. The engine is focused on 3D collisions, joints, springs, etc., whereas the bubble toy is simulating thin films.
I wish there was source code for the bubble toy so we could see how it works!
More of their amazing work here: https://oimo.io/works Also they appear to be a student?
This reminds me of orisinal games!
Though strangely, it seems to disable all of my browser keyboard shortcuts. Even basic ones like going back, selecting the address bar, or changing the zoom level. I assume it's just listening for all key events, though I didn't even realize it was possible to override the basic ones.
edit: I found the bug! It has a list that's supposed to contain all possible keycodes, and if all the keys in your shortcut are on it that list it works. But I'm on macOS so my shortcuts all involve the "MetaLeft" or "MetaRight" key and those are missing from the list. Appending those keycodes to the minified array named `ba.G` fixes shortcuts for me!