A WebGPU compute shader to simulate "ants" which have a position, direction, and a pheromone color. Each ant places a colored pixel at their position, then senses for colored pixels in front of it and steers towards them. Another compute shader pass blurs the pheromone image each frame.
See it live (Use Chrome, Edge, or Nightly firefox, see browser compatibility table): https://fyrecean.com/pheromones_v1/
Use the config panel in the top right to adjust the simulation parameters, and the dropdown to save a configuration to your browsers cookies.
The root directory contains a Rocket Rust web server which can be run with cargo run. Alternatively, serve the ./client/public directory with any web server of your choice after generating the code using:
cd ./client
npx webpack
Use npm run dev in the client directory for web pack to file watch continuously.