Exploring the World of Toxic Libs and Soft Body Physics

TLDRIn this video, we dive into the world of toxic libs and soft body physics. We explore the concept of particles and behaviors, and create a physics world with gravity and boundaries. We also connect particles with springs to create interesting animations. Join us on this coding challenge!

Key insights

🧪Toxic Libs is a powerful open-source library for computational design and generative art.

⏱️The verlid physics 2D class allows us to create physics worlds and simulate particle interactions.

🔗Springs can be used to connect particles and create interesting animations.

✒️Object destructuring can simplify the access to classes and properties in toxic libs.

🌍Toxic libs offers a range of geometry classes for creating complex shapes.

Q&A

What is toxic libs?

Toxic libs is an open-source library for computational design and generative art, providing various packages for geometry, physics, audio, and more.

What is a physics world?

A physics world is a simulation environment where particles and behaviors interact according to predefined rules and physics equations.

What are springs in soft body physics?

Springs are virtual connections between particles that simulate physical forces, such as elasticity and deformation.

How can I create complex shapes with toxic libs?

Toxic libs offers a range of geometry classes, such as rectangles, circles, and polygons, that can be combined and transformed to create complex shapes.

Can I use toxic libs for rigid body physics?

Toxic libs primarily focuses on soft body physics, but there are other physics libraries available for rigid body simulations.

Timestamped Summary

00:00Introduction and background of working on the Nature of Code book.

02:26Inspiration from a tweet and revisiting the Nokia Friends project.

03:20Introduction to toxic libs and its various packages for computational design.

06:32Creating a physics world and particles using toxic libs.

09:15Adding gravity behavior to the particles and visualizing the effects.

11:50Connecting particles with springs and adjusting their properties.

13:59Adding a third particle and creating complex shapes with toxic libs geometry classes.

15:52Summary and conclusion of the video, highlighting key insights and future possibilities.