3D Explosion Animation 💣 💥

🔥 Amazing explosion animation with Pygame.

💣 Explosion physics

An Explosion instance is made of a set of Particle objects. Those particles are fireballs which behavior is determined by a random generated velocity vector.

Particle movement:

particle.velocity = [vx, vy, vz]

vx determines how fast a particle moves to the right or to the left.
vy determines how fast a particle moves up or down.
vz determines how fast a particle moves closer to the screen.

The effect of making a particle going off the screen is achieved by increasing the particle radius and brightening its color.

💣 Explosion parameters

explosion = Explosion(
    particle_size, total_particles, x_expansion, y_expansion, screen.window
)

particle_size sets the initial radius of the explosion particles.
total_particles is the number of fireballs in the explosion.
x_expansion sets how much the explosion expands to the right and to the left.
y_expansion sets how high the explosion expands.

💣 Requirements

This project uses the Pygame module. You can install Pygame with:

$ pip install pygame

💣 Usage

The main file is start_explosion.py. You can run the animation with:

$ python -m explosion.start_explosion

When you execute the project black screen will be displayed. Just click somewhere in the screen and BOOM 💥 💥