iPS (Ivan's Particle Physics Simulator) is a fun little particle simulator complete with an even smaller non-realtime rendering engine using Cairo.
Screenshots and Videos
Here are a couple of examples of what this program can produce:
Downloads
Current version: 0.2.5
To download source tarball, follow this link. The archive includes a helpful script which recompiles and runs the programs, then encodes a movie with mencoder and plays it back using mplayer. The core algorithm should run on any system. Rendering requires Cairo. Has been only tested on Linux x86_64.
Version History
v0.2.5 - coloring according to proximity (available for download 12.04.09)
v0.2.4 - implemented color definitions and background rendering (available for download 11.04.09)