Slime Simulation

A "slime" simulation "game" that runs on the GPU able to simulate thousands of agents with configurable parameters leading to very stunning simulations.

Simulation Parameters

• Width - Simulation width in pixels
• Height - Simulation height in pixels
• Update Count - The amount of times the simulation runs in one frame
• Decay Rate - Global pixel fade out rate
• Diffuse Rate - Global pixel diffuse rate
•  Spawn Type - Different ways to spawn agents upon restarting the simulation
• Border Type - Different ways tho handle borders. Repeating - agents teleport, Contained - agents bounce off
• Base Color (HEX) - The background color of the simulation 

Species Parameters

• Speed - The species speed
• Turn Speed - How fast the agents turn
• Sensor Angle - The spacing between the three different sensing zones (Visualization below)
• Sensor Distance - How far away the agents sense trails
• Sensor Size - How big of an area the agent senses (!!Keep this at one unless you have a beefy GPU!!)
• Trail Weight - How strong of a trail the species leave
• Color (HEX) - Color of the species

Controls

• Left Click - Spawn Agents
• Right Click - Spawn Agents
• Escape - Toggle full screen view
• E - Reset agent positions
• R - Reset simulation
• Space - Pause simulation
• Right Arrow - Advance one frame
• F11 - Take screenshot  

How the simulation works

Helps visualize how Sensor Angle, Sensor Distance and Sensor Size impact the agents behavior.

I did not draw this. Source

Other notes

Simulation tested only on Windows with a GTX 660 gpu.

There is a save load system implemented so you can save your configurations aswell as the ability to screenshot! (For Windows they save under AppData/LocalLow/AllInTw0/SlimeSim)

There are a maximum of three species at a time.

The project was inspired by a video made by Sebastian Lague.