You will need to use your coding ability to create ‘sparks’. You are provided with some models/assets, a reference scene and a rough sketch for visual direction. You can start with the reference scene and its coding language or create your own from scratch in your language/platform of choice (You are free to make your own desktop program with OpenGL). You are not allowed to use any physics/collision engines such as Bullet, unity, unreal etc. You essentially have to write code for the mathematics (external vector/math library allowed) and physics (external library not allowed as mentioned above) of the motion of the sparks.
L0: Basic natural motion of sparks (projectile motion, air and ground friction)
L1: Collision with ground plane
L2: Sparks should split randomly post collision to give variation
L3: Collision with a minimum of one of the given primitive shapes
L4: Collision with the ‘Stanford Bunny’
You are free to use graphical enhancements (sprites/glow/complex-lighting etc.) on your output to make it visually appealing and look natural/realistic.
The objective of my hack was to simulate the motion of sparks from a saw blade. I managed to achieve the all important projectile motion of the particles, basic collision detection and the splintering effect of spark particles on collision. I wanted to implement a bounding volume hierarchy if time permitted me to do so. The collisions would have become more accurate and efficient to compute.
1: Start a simple HTTP server at the root directory
sudo python -m SimpleHTTPServer 40002: Go to any browser and type in the following URL
localhost:4000Ubuntu 16.04
Google Chrome Browser