14 stories tagged physics-simulation, newest first.
74 points by mlukewizard | 41 comments
GitHub repository for DishwasherBench, a dishwasher-loading game on a physical simulation used to benchmark language models, also playable in a browser.
598 points by Michelangelo11 | 113 comments
Pat Kerr's project history of the 2D vehicle physics simulation he wrote in 1996 that became the basis of Grand Theft Auto's vehicle system, with an interactive Motion Lab demo.
23 points by bilsbie | 20 comments
A browser-based interactive 3D simulation of an O'Neill cylinder space habitat that users can walk around, reportedly built with Claude.
544 points by dmitrybrant | 236 comments
Interactive 3D browser simulation of a park where the speed of light is 5 km/h, showing length contraction, time dilation, Terrell rotation and Doppler effects.
688 points by gregsadetsky | 135 comments
An interactive web toy showing a red ball on a spring that you can pull and release to make it boing, with a counter of boings.
465 points by humbledrone | 111 comments
Product homepage for Anukari, a software synthesizer and effects processor built on an interactive GPU-driven 3D physics simulation, now in beta.
488 points by memalign | 58 comments
Interactive browser demo of Verlet-integration cloth physics, shown generating a tearable spiderweb with adjustable stiffness, drag, and mouse controls.
347 points by Luc | 46 comments
Project homepage for OpenSPH, a versatile particle code for astrophysical simulations such as asteroid impacts, here showing its SpaceSim section.
492 points by nmstoker | 51 comments
An interactive browser demo by Grant Kot simulating colored fluid particles forming liquid layers.
332 points by mabynogy | 50 comments
Iceberger, an interactive browser toy where you draw an iceberg shape and watch how it settles and floats in water.
659 points by chromakode | 77 comments
Blog post by chromakode with development notes on building xkcd's 2024 April Fools collaborative Rube Goldberg-style "Machine" comic.
1008 points by thunderbong | 450 comments
An interactive browser simulation showing how a starfield looks from a spaceship accelerating toward the speed of light, with relativistic Doppler and time dilation effects.
727 points by ibobev | 156 comments
Andrew Chan's blog post with notes on the math, algorithms, and methods for simulating fluids like fire and smoke in real time, with source code on GitHub.
786 points by Akharin | 171 comments
Itch.io page for Setris, a downloadable pay-what-you-want Tetris-like game with sand physics for Windows and Linux, with a trailer video.