Assignment 4

Random Universe

Develop and implement a program that displays a space trip through a pseudo-random cloud of meteoroids from a first-person perspective. The program must be able to run indefinitly, without the viewer ever leaving the cloud. To achieve this, you may for instance choose a cyclic motion path or invent new meteoroids as you go (getting rid of invisible ones in order to make place for the new ones). It is ok if the viewer bumps into meteoroids and flies through them. If you aim at four points for this assignment, you may for instance avoid such collisions automatically. Another idea could be to add window frames (faked in 2D?) and a console with some animated instruments such as speed indicator, odometer, radar.