A Simple Game Animation
With these preliminaries out of the way, we’re ready to tackle an actual problem that a typical Lua hacker might face. Lua is often used as a scripting language for games. These days, games often include particle systems that generate organic-looking graphical effects. I’ve always wanted to build a particle emitter, so today I’m going to start a fire, functional style!
A functional particle system wouldn’t retain mutable state, so it might be a function that accepts state (particles) as an argument and produces new state (new particles).
But before I can start writing my particle system, I need something capable of drawing. I was without my computer this weekend, so that gave me an excuse to use Codea,[34] a cute ...
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