p5mimicry

p5mimicry.js

WIP Please ignore

About

This project is based on Dan Shiffman's Nature of Code book and code examples. Credits go to Dan and all of the people who have contributed to building those examples.

This library is being built to make it easier to quickly breath "life" into your p5.js projects by simulating natural systems and behaviors with code. Dan's Nature of Code helped me to discover the beauty and expressivenes of code and continues to be a major influence in my creative practice.

I hope you can find inspiration in the natural world and find new ways to simulate them with code. Happy coding!

Docs

• docs

Examples

see: /examples

Get the Library

beta:

https://unpkg.com/p5mimicry@latest/dist/p5mimicry.min.js

see versions: https://www.npmjs.com/package/p5mimicry

Credits:

• Nature of Code by Dan Shiffman
• Nature of Code Examples by Dan Shiffman and contributors
• Developing an open source library Following along Kent C. Dodd's wonderful Open source software development series: https://egghead.io/lessons/javascript-publishing-to-npm

Demos

• Special Spring: https://editor.p5js.org/joeyklee/sketches/ORZ-MNb5B
• oscillating path followers: https://editor.p5js.org/joeyklee/full/sMUJRKafG

(More coming soon)

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Develop

The process goes something like:

• setup
• make new features or fix stuff
• build the library
• publish

Setup and start

cd p5mimicry
npm install
npm run start

the library will be served at: localhost:<PORT>/p5mimicry.js

Add your classes in the /src directory with a folder called /MyClassName that includes:

• index.js
• index_test.js

import and add your new class name to the /src/index.js as you see it done with the others.

Build

npm run build

Publish

First change the version name in package.json

git add .
git commit -m "bumped version"
npm run publish:gh

then publish to npm

npm run publish:npm

WIP - the todo list!

Working through these: https://github.com/nature-of-code/noc-examples-p5.js

• Mover
  • euler integration ✅
  • friction ✅
  • resistance ✅
  • repel ✅
  • attract ✅
  • seek ✅
  • arrive ✅
  • path-following ✅
  • stay-within-walls ==> "contain" ✅
  • flow field ✅
  • separation ✅
  • flocking ✅
  • steering perceptron ✅
• Wave ✅
• Path ✅
  • path-simple ✅
  • path-complex ✅
• Pendulum ✅
• Spring ✅
• Particle systems ✅
• Cellular Automata
  • wolfram
  • gameoflife
• Fractals
  • recursion
  • cantor set
  • koch
  • tree
  • lsystem
• Genetic Algorithms
  • traditional ✅
  • interactive selection