Metaballs in Go

A 2D animation of moving metaballs, implemented with Go, Fyne toolkit and BubbleTea TUI , based on the marching square algorithm.

Usage

Linux

./metaballs

Windows

Open the metaballs.exe file

Then you can interact with the TUI using the keyboard to set your preferences:

After setting your preferences, press q to confirm and start the animation.

WASM

to run the metaballs in the browser, you first need to run a server to serve the wasm file(cant fetch directly since javascript requires CORS headers)

Linux

make serve

or

./server

Windows

run the server.exe file

after running the server open the wasm/index.html file in your browser click the run button to start the animation

References

• Metaballs and Marching Squares, by Jamie Wong
• How Computers Draw Weird Shapes, on YouTube
• Fyne toolkit
• Bubble Tea