Metaballs

[unixfreak]

This module creates a drawable surface with some HSL bouncing metaballs.

Maybe someone will find this useful as a starting point for something else. Code can be found here:
https://github.com/Jigoku/love2d_metaballs

Basic Usage:

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function love.load()
	require("metaballs") 
	metaballs.create(8) 	-- spawn 8 metaballs
end

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.draw(metaballs.surface(),0,0)
end

function love.update(dt)
	metaballs.update(dt)
end

This was inspired by a coding challenge video i came across recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccYLb7cLB1I

[azoyan]

Looks great!

[YoungNeer]

Perhaps I could use this as background in my MainMenuState. Thanks a lot

[grump]

Looks nice! I played around with it for a bit and made some optimizations. The calculation is now done in a shader, and the texture is not recreated every frame. It's quickly hacked in though, so the code is far from optimal and not very pretty.

[unixfreak]

Looks nice! I played around with it for a bit and made some optimizations. The calculation is now done in a shader, and the texture is not recreated every frame. It's quickly hacked in though, so the code is far from optimal and not very pretty.

Hey, that's cool. Yeah, runs much faster as a shader. I still haven't a clue at writing things via shader language, will have to dig into that more in the future.