falling-turnip VS sand.js

Compare falling-turnip vs sand.js and see what are their differences.

falling-turnip

falling sand game with regular parallel arrays. (by tranma)

sand.js

A falling sand game as a cellular automaton, powered by WebGL. (by ericleong)
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falling-turnip sand.js
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Haskell JavaScript
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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falling-turnip

Posts with mentions or reviews of falling-turnip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-08.
  • Show HN: Making a Falling Sand Simulator
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 May 2022
    If you want more performance, falling sand simulators can further be made parallel by implementing them using Margolus Neighbourhoods, as in Falling Turnip: https://github.com/tranma/falling-turnip

    The idea is that a single iteration divides the world into 2x2 squares and then applies effects sequentially within each square, but not between the squares. This means each square can be processed independently. In the next iteration, the division into squares shifts right and down by one cell each direction. This does mean you need more steps than in a sequential implementation, but I found it to be quite a principled approach to parallelizing cellular automata when I first read about it. One interesting side effect of this design is that falling particles end up being separated by blank space, as shown here: https://futhark-lang.org/static/falling-sand-2016.12.04.webm I wonder if that is fixable.

sand.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of sand.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-08.

What are some alternatives?

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LambdaHack - Haskell game engine library for roguelike dungeon crawlers; please offer feedback, e.g., after trying out the sample game with the web frontend at

FunGEn - A lightweight, cross-platform, OpenGL-based 2D game engine in Haskell

rattletrap - :car: Parse and generate Rocket League replays.

SFML - Low level Haskell bindings for SFML 2.x

haskanoid - A free and open source breakout clone in Haskell using SDL and FRP, with Wiimote and Kinect support.

Monadius - 2-D arcade scroller

Tic-Tac-Toe - :x: :o: TicTacToe in Haskell.

Hipmunk - Haskell binding for Chipmunk, 2D physics engine.