Physics Simulation in Haskell

2d Physics Simulation using Verlet integration implemented in Haskell. This project is inspired by the work of johnBuffer's Writing a Physics Engine from scratch and the corresponding Github repo.

This also serves as my final project for the course CIS 194: Introduction to Haskell. My solutions to the assignments and homework in the course is here.

TODO

• Read more about strict evaluation in Haskell to optimize the collision solvers;
• Implement a multi-thread collision solver;
• Implement a string object;
• Implement a box container;
• Maybe implement an abstract container;
• Write-up.

Build

This project depends on gloss to render. Make sure you installed the required dependencies for the gloss library: openGL, GLU, freeglut. Next, you can install the required libraries for the project:

cabal install

And, finally: cabal build to build the project.

Executables

Right now, there are two executables in the project:

• simple_app is just a simple world with 4 balls in it. You can execute the program by running cabal run simple_app.
• random_app is a world in which balls are continuously added, execute the program by cabal run random_app.