TraerParticle | SuperCollider 3.13.0 Help

Description

Particles can represent objects, corners of 2D or 3D shapes or abstract things that won't even be drawn. Particles have 5 properties:

Mass
Position
Velocity
Age
Fixed / Free

NOTE: Documentation is only very slightly adapted to comply with the SuperCollider port. See the original by Jeffrey Traer Bernstein here... http://murderandcreate.com/physics/

Move the particle to some 3D location with positon.set(x, y, z);. Move the particle by some 3D amount with position.add(x, y, z);. And this is how you get to the dimensions of particle position. position.x; position.y; position.z;.

.velocity

.velocity = value

Set the velocity to some 3D quantity, maybe use this to send a particle flying off in a particular direction: velocity.set(x, y, z);. This adds some 3D quantity to the velocity of the particle. You could maybe use this to speed up or slow down a particle: velocity.add(x, y, z);. And this is how you get at the dimensions of the particles velocity: velocity.x; velocity.y; velocity.z;

.mass

.mass = value

Get or set the mass of the particle.

.setMass(m)

Set the mass of the particle. Heavier particles will have more inertia and will accelerate slower. Attraction/repulsion forces will also be stronger for heavier particles. If you aren't doing anything special this will probably be the same for all particles.