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I wrote this in couple afternoons.  Hadn’t done any projects like this in a while, but this was a simple task I wanted to tackle:  Draw particles with the mouse,  when close generate an interaction, and when the interaction occurs trigger an event.  In a nutshell, that’s what this does:

LMB draws red, unfilled particles that slowly fall down the screen.  When they get close together, a latticework of lines will draw between them: The more lines that connect them, the more opaque they get.  When the lines are created, a ‘burst’ of smaller white particles will emit from the larger red particle that spawned the line.

The app was mainly just written for leisure, it’s not that speedy.  But was a nice relaxing thing to do over the weekend.

• You can download the zip of the Windows executable (32 bit) here.
  • Unzip to a directory, and run simpleParticle01.exe.
• You can download the source Python module here.
  • It was built with Python 2.6.5 and Pygame 1.9.1.
  • This tool also uses the 2d vector library that’s on the PyGame site, you can access it from my blog here, or from their site here.