Piccolo Particle Simulator
A lightweight particle simulator with collision detection.
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In this version the particles are bouncing in a square or circular bounding box with perfectly elastic collisions.
Particles have masses and radius.
It's a very educational script to learn something about particle physics.
You can set a flag and save the trajectories on a file log.
Cite As
Paolo Di Prodi (2026). Piccolo Particle Simulator (https://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/29262-piccolo-particle-simulator), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
Acknowledgements
Inspired by: Draw a circle.
General Information
- Version 1.1.0.0 (106 KB)
MATLAB Release Compatibility
- Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
