If you have ever had to visualise particle acceleration in an instructive, numerically accurate and visually appealing way that is also accessible as a still image on paper, a moving picture on screen or an interactive experience on smartphones and desktop computers, your options have been limited. With Pathicles, there might be a solution for you.
A pathicle is the visualization of the motion of a particle by sampling this trajectory in equidistant time steps. Pathicles is an open source project for creating those pathicles in a web browser by unleashing the parallel computational power of the available graphics processing unit in your device to solve the relativistic equations of motion numerically.
Without any magnetic or electric fields, electrons follow a straight path. Here,
In accelerators, dipole magnets are used for deflecting beams.
While charged particles lose or gain velocity due to electrical forces, photons do not care at all.
The pathicles logo shows photon, electron, and proton pathicles
Not only for enlightening students, Pathicles has photon beams included.
- Vue 3 support
- mobile support
- js-based pusher
- image prerendering
- field visualization
- lattice rendering
- more test cases
- geometric ambient occlusion
- better shadows
- using OGL instead of regl? / How about WebGL 2
- fields
- dynamic external field
- particle-in-cell for internal field
- Pathicles - the game