Elements

About

The Elements project is all about free and easy 2D physics for python and the XO laptop. It is used as the backend for the XO physics playground activity Physics.

Watch this and that video to see where we are heading

IRC: #elements on irc.freenode.net

Homepage: http://elements.linuxuser.at

Screenshots

(from Elements/Screenshots)

Pygame Example

The typical usage in pygame can look like this:

      import pygame
      from pygame.locals import *
      from pygame.color import *   

      from elements import *
       
      pygame.init()
      screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 800))
      clock = pygame.time.Clock()

      world = elements()
      world.add_wall((100, 200), (300, 200))
         
      # Main Game Loop:
      while running:
         # Event Handling
         # Maybe calling world.add_ball(event.pos) or world.add_square(event.pos)
         # ...

         screen.fill((255,255,255))

         # Update & Draw World
         world.update()
         world.draw(screen)

         # Flip Display
         pygame.display.flip()
          
         # Try to stay at 50 FPS
         clock.tick(50)